Something Wicked This Way Comes
Making the rounds this month is Britain’s Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists’ proposal that the medical community take more seriously the option of euthanasia for seriously ill and disabled newborns:
‘A very disabled child can mean a disabled family. If life-shortening and deliberate interventions to kill infants were available, they might have an impact on obstetric decision-making, even preventing some late term abortions, as some parents would be more confident about continuing a pregnancy and taking a risk on outcome.’
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The Times Online
Wesley J. Smith warns that ‘infanticide…has become a respectable notion‘, and that those concerned with preserving the lives of children need to start paying closer attention to the issue. We can no longer assume that newborn euthanasia is beyond the pale.
One of my greatest frustrations with the ‘pro-choice’ and euthanasia movements has been their reluctance to be honest with themselves. Their rhetoric is filled with vague notions of rights, personal freedom, and quality of life. In the end, it all comes down to killing.
Ironically, now that such an organization has finally made clear its intentions in such unambiguous terms, I find myself less than comforted. It’s not the language sending chills down my spine. It’s the knowledge that a large group of people gathered to craft this proposal, writing draft after draft, and, in the end, decided that ‘killing infants’ was a good idea. Good enough to use the term in its formal proposal.
Be careful what you ask for.
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