THE MINDSET OF PROMOTERS OF INFANTICIDE!

THE MINDSET OF PROMOTERS OF INFANTICIDE!

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONE.BLOGSPOT.COM - SUN. FEB. 17/19

 

FIRST THINGS - INFANTICIDE BECOME JUSTIFIABLE BY WESLEY J. SMITH 2.6.19

 

"Infanticide was once "unthinkable." But over the last few decades, some of the world's foremost bio-thicists have considered baby killing worthy of respectable debate.

 

"Princeton University's Peter Singer is the most famous such advocate. A crass utilitarian, he argues that "being human" doesn't have any moral support. The question of value rather depends on whether an individual exhibits the cognitive traits of a "person" over time, such as self-awareness. In this view, some human beings are non-persons - an invidious category that includes the unborn, infants, the profoundly cognitively disabled, and those who have lost their personhood through illness or injury.

 

"Non-persons do not posses the right to life. In "Rethinking Life and Death, Singer explicitly compares human non-persons to mackerel:"Since neither the newborn infant nor a fish is a person, the wrongness of killing such beings is not as great as the wrongness of killing a person." He opines in Practical Ethics:

 

"When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed. The loss of the happy life for the first infant is outweighed by the gain of a happier life for the second. Therefore, if  killing the hemophiliac infant has no adverse effect on others, it would, according to the total view , be right to kill him.

 

".... infanticide should be permitted under the same circumstances in which society permits the abortion of viable fetuses. Singer is far from alone in tying the morality of infanticide to the ethics of late-term abortion. Several years ago, the Journal of Medical Ethics published an infanticide advocacy piece asserting that whatever justifies abortion also supports the rights of parents to unwanted infants killed.

 

" In spite of the oxymoron in the expression, we propose to this practice "after birth abortion," rather than "infanticide", to emphasis that moral status of the individual killed is comparable with of of a fetus (on which "abortions" in the traditional sense are performed) rather that to that child. Therefore, we claim that killing a newborn could be ethically permissible in all the circumstances where abortion would be. Such circumstances include cases where the newborn has the potential to have an (at least) acceptable life, but the well-being of the family is at risk....

 

"The events of the last few weeks have moved the "Neuhaus Gauge" on infanticide from "debatable" to "justifiable" because it is now embraced within the political and cultural mainstream. New York recently legalized late-term abortion and repealed a law requiring doctors to care for babies who survive abortions. A similar Virginia proposal made the huge news but failed in committee. Rhode Island has a similar bill pending, supported by its governor. Meanwhile a Vermont Bill aims to make abortion an absolute right without any limitation as to time of gestation, purpose, or method. The bill has 91 co-sponsors....

 

"This isn't just a question of advocacy. Dutch doctors openly commit babies born with terminal conditions or serious disabilities. Indeed, infanticide has become socially acceptable that a bureaucratic checklist call the Gronigan Protocol exists to help doctors decide which babies can be killed. Despite allowing this blatant human rights violation, the country remains in good standing in the international community. Meanwhile in the United States Senate,  Democrats blocked a bill that would require medical professionals to provide care and treatment for babies born alive after abort attempts.

 

How is it that infanticide has become justifiable when it was unthinkable in the years following World War II (German doctors were hanged at Nuremberg for killing disabled babies.)....

George H. Kubeck.

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