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November 5, 2006
College Calls For Killing Sick Babies
Posted by Dave Blount at November 5, 2006 8:50 PM
Edging its way down the slippery slope from abortion, Britain's Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology is calling on doctors to consider the "management option" of "active euthanasia" for babies born with medical conditions.
Strangely enough, an argument is made that killing sick babies could reduce abortion:
If life-shortening and deliberate interventions to kill infants were available, they might have an impact on obstetric decision-making, even preventing some late abortions, as some parents would be more confident about continuing a pregnancy and taking a risk on outcome.
Still more strangely, infanticide is being promoted as a moral duty. According to Professor of Human Genetics Joy Delhanty of University College London, it is "morally wrong to strive to keep alive babies that are then going to suffer many months or years of ill health."
If we reach the progressive consensus that innocent life is not sacred, we will continue to slip down the slope. Before long babies will be getting exterminated for have birth marks or for crying too much. But why stop at babies? It might take years before you realize that a child just didn't turn out.
At least Michael J. Fox will get his precious research clones.
On a tip from Brooklyn Red Leg.
