Tuesday, February 28, 2012

After-Birth Abortion?

Liz Klimas reports on the latest ethical argument that, if the quality of its potential life is a valid reason to abort a fetus, then the quality of its potential life is a valid reason to end the life of an infant. (Warning: what will come up right on your screen, before you even scroll down, is a lifelike image of a newborn infant--babies pop into this world looking as if something gruesome had been done to them.)

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ethicists-argue-in-favor-of-after-birth-abortions-as-newborns-are-not-persons/

Canny comments from William Briggs (no gruesome pictures, but a lighter touch than some readers will consider appropriate):

http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=5304
The position of this web site is that when they start breathing on their own, they become persons...and even before that, the sentimental value they have for their relatives deserves some respect.

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