MOTHERS should be allowed to kill newborn babies they do not want because the children are as “morally irrelevant” as aborted fetuses, a team of doctors linked to Britain’s prestigious Oxford University claimed.
Australian philosopher and medical ethicist Dr Francesca Minerva and Dr. Alberto Giubilini, a bioethicist from the University of Milan, wrote ”After-birth abortion: Why should the baby live?”, which claims killing babies is as ethically permissible as abortion. Minerva and Giubilini argued ”The moral status of an infant is equivalent to that of a fetus in the sense that both lack those properties that justify the attribution of a right to life to an individual.”
They said they had chosen to call the practice “after-birth abortion” rather than infanticide “to emphasise that the moral status of the individual killed is comparable with that of a foetus (on which ‘abortions’ in the traditional sense are performed) rather than to that of a child.” The authors said that the newborns were not “actual persons,” only “potential persons” so they did not have a “moral right to life”.
Their definition of a person was “an individual who is capable of attributing to her own existence some (at least) basic value such that being deprived of this existence represents a loss to her.” It could be acceptable to kill newborn babies born with disabilities who “might be an unbearable burden on the family and on society as a whole,” the authors said, and healthy children whose adoption would be distressing for the mother. Parents should have the right to end the lives of their children rather than give the baby up, “if interests of actual people should prevail,” Minerva and Giubilini wrote.
THIS IS HOW IT BEGINS. A PAPER IS WRITTEN. PLANT THE SEED. FEATURE THE IDEA IN MOVIES & TELEVISION. JUSTIFY IT. LEGALIZE IT IN SOME SITUATIONS. LEGALIZE IT ALL SITUATIONS. MAKE IT MANDATORY IF THE GOVERNMENT SAYS SO.
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