After-birth Abortion, Journal of Medical Ethics

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An article appeared in the Journal of Medical Ethics (Published Online First 23 February 2012) wherein two doctors make the ethical argument IN FAVOR of "After Birth Abortion." After birth abortion has been quietly discussed for years by those who started Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion advocacy groups since the early days of Margaret Sanger. I have seen other articles proposing that parents should have the choice to kill their children up to age eight or ten.

This is the first time I have seen anything in a medical journal openly supporting child murder. Admittedly, I have not been keeping up on the medical issues as much as I did in the past so it is likely this is not the first such publication proffering the objective. There should be no surprise though since those who support abortion also support a society without a sense of personal responsibility. This article has been cited in a couple of editorials in left wing magazines. The writers of those editorials are mad at the pro-life advocates for commenting on their editorials! How stupid can you be!

So...

From The Article: we propose to call this practice ‘after-birth abortion’, rather than ‘infanticide’, to emphasise [their spelling] that the moral status of the individual killed is comparable with that of a fetus (on which ‘abortions’ in the traditional sense are performed) rather than to that of a 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. Accordingly, a second terminological specification is that we call such a practice ‘after-birth abortion’ rather than ‘euthanasia’ because the best interest of the one who dies is not necessarily the primary criterion for the choice, contrary to what happens in the case of euthanasia.

More FTA: CONCLUSION If criteria such as the costs (social, psychological, economic) for the potential parents are good enough reasons for having an abortion even when the fetus is healthy, if the moral status of the newborn is the same as that of the infant and if neither has any moral value by virtue of being a potential person, then the same reasons which justify abortion should also justify the killing of the potential person when it is at the stage of a newborn.

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