{"id":12408,"date":"2012-03-03T16:12:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T21:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.www.liveactionnews.org\/?p=12408"},"modified":"2013-04-02T21:29:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T01:29:40","slug":"ethicists-ask-why-should-the-baby-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ethicists-ask-why-should-the-baby-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethicists ask: \u201cwhy should the baby live?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s commonly understood that having a baby is the way to bring new life into the world.\u00a0 And typically, a life should live, right?\u00a0 Normal people don\u2019t usually go around asking, \u201cWhy should that person live?\u201d\u00a0 Usually, the question would be, \u201cWhy should they die?\u201d<\/p>\n

But, in a strange\u2014and horrifying\u2014turn of events, ethicists have written in the UK\u2019s BMJ Journal of Medical Ethics that some infants should be slated for death.\u00a0 They have written a paper entitled \u201cAfter-Birth Abortion:\u00a0 Why Should the Baby Live?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

Cassy Fiano has already detailed<\/a> much of the information included in this outrageous paper.\u00a0 However, I\u2019d like to call out a few more points specifically.<\/p>\n

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Should this baby live?<\/p><\/div>\n

First, let\u2019s be clear on one thing.\u00a0 This paper really and truly advocates the position that parents should be allowed to order the death of their newborn infant for ANY REASON WHATSOEVER.\u00a0 These \u201cethicists\u201d argue for no restrictions at all.\u00a0 Any reason a parent may think of is perfectly acceptable.\u00a0 The paper states:<\/p>\n

\u2026when circumstances occur after birth such that they would have justified abortion, what we call after-birth abortion should be permissible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What justifies abortion in modern day America?\u00a0 Any reason under the sun.\u00a0 Of course, some states have enacted restrictions, but these restrictions usually apply to a point in time in the pregnancy at which abortion is no longer allowed.\u00a0 These restrictions do not typically prohibit a certain reason for having an abortion.\u00a0 Thus, under the ethicists\u2019 argument, even with these prohibitive\u00a0 laws, newborn infants should still be eligible for free murder, at their parents\u2019 discretion.<\/p>\n

Second, this entirely whacked out article claims that a newborn baby is, in fact, NOT a new person who has been brought into existence.\u00a0 Read the explanation:<\/p>\n

Failing to bring a new person into existence cannot be compared with the wrong caused by procuring the death of an existing person. The reason is that, unlike the case of death of an existing person, failing to bring a new person into existence does not prevent anyone from accomplishing any of her future aims. However, this consideration entails a much stronger idea than the one according to which severely handicapped children should be euthanised. If the death of a newborn is not wrongful to her on the grounds that she cannot have formed any aim that she is prevented from accomplishing, then it should also be permissible to practise an after-birth abortion on a healthy newborn too, given that she has not formed any aim yet\u2026.<\/p>\n

It is not possible to damage a newborn by preventing her from developing the potentiality to become a person in the morally relevant sense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While these ethicists eagerly agree that a newborn is a human being, they adamantly deny that such an infant exists.\u00a0 Somehow, in their delusional minds, a living creature\/person\/human\/animal\/thing (whatever they wish to call the infant) does not exist.\u00a0 He lives, but he does not exist.\u00a0 The ethicists never state when, exactly, a human being begins to exist and therefore, acquire the right to life.\u00a0 They appear to argue that some newborns are eligible for \u201cafter-birth abortions\u201d for a few days, and some for a few weeks.\u00a0 It all depends on the mental state so, hey, it may be even longer for some\u00a0 babies.<\/p>\n

Finally, if you take the time to read the whole article, you will find it filled with hypocrisy, contradictions, and psycho-babble.\u00a0 While claiming that newborns have a right not to be inflicted with pain, they argue for their murder, based simply on the conflicting plans of the parents.\u00a0 While arguing that we should consider future potential people\u2014who will one day exist\u2014in some decisions (i.e., environmental ones), they argue that current potential people can be killed at random.<\/p>\n

The arguments set out in this article are some of the most dangerous this world has ever seen\u2014clearly on par with the writings of Hitler and other deranged individuals.\u00a0 The article argues in support of the free and rampant murder of human beings as the ethicists attempt to explain away all harm that comes from such actions:<\/p>\n

If a potential person, like a fetus and a newborn, does not become an actual person, like you and us, then there is neither an actual nor a future person who can be harmed, which means that there is no harm at all. So, if you ask one of us if we would have been harmed, had our parents decided to kill us when we were fetuses or newborns, our answer is \u2018no\u2019, because they would have harmed someone who does not exist (the \u2018us\u2019 whom you are asking the question), which means no one. And if no one is harmed, then no harm occurred.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shame on these writers for calling themselves ethicists when they lack the most obvious of moral values\u2014a simple appreciation for human life at all stages.\u00a0 And shame on the BMJ Journal of Medical Ethics which claims<\/a> to \u201chelp doctors make better decisions\u201d for daring to print this article\u2014chock full of the seeds of human rights violations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s commonly understood that having a baby is the way to bring new life into the world. And typically, a life should live, right? 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