When abortion rights were being debated in this country, christians warned that once you allow abortion there is no limit to where killing can extend.
Of course the opnion-makers poo-pooed the slippery slope arguments.
Now it is being argued that new-born babies are only potential persons and the idea of infanticide is being seriously promoted as post-birth abortion.
Their logic is impecable of course. Once you allow that a foetus is not a person you can draw the arbitrary line of personhood at any place that is convenient. Babies are just the beginning. There will be calls for the elderly to be euthanased then anyone with any kind of disability- then Jews and other "non-persons".
Philosophers' claim over moral right to kill newborns sparks outrage
KILLING newborns is morally the same as abortion and should be permissible if the mother wishes it, Australian philosophers have argued in an article that has unleashed a firestorm of criticism and forced the British Medical Journal to defend its publication.
Alberto Giubilini, from Monash University, and Francesca Minerva, from the University of Melbourne, say a foetus and a newborn are equivalent in their lack of a sense of their own life and aspiration. They contend this justifies what they call ''after-birth abortion'' as long as it is painless, because the baby is not harmed by missing out on a life it cannot conceptualise.
About a third of infants with Down syndrome are not diagnosed prenatally, Drs Giubilini and Minerva say, and mothers of children with serious abnormalities should have the chance to end the child's life after, as well as before, birth.
Advertisement: Story continues belowBut this should also extend to healthy infants, the pair argue in the BMJ group's Journal of Medical Ethics, because the interests of a mother who is unwilling to care for it outweigh a baby's claims.
The academics call an infant, like a foetus, only a ''potential person'', but they do not define the point at which it gains human status, saying this depends on the baby's degree of self-awareness and is a matter for neurologists and psychologists.
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Oh, PLEASE! We all know that one and only one event determines that a baby will be born. CONCEPTION. I have 2 years of pre-med biology, even without this education, anyone with half a brain knows this is true. The USA (my country that I love,)now has murdered over 60 million babies, in the name of "Women's Choice." We make Hitler look like a small time thug. God help us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It's the same here in Australia on a smaller scale. Once you allow the killing of any human being (i.e. after conception) for any reason, the temptation comes to extend the killing just a little then a little more- before long nobody has an inherent right to life and you are living in a jungle.
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