Thursday, November 09, 2006

Active euthanasia for disabled newborn children

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in "Great" Britain has advised that active euthanasia for severely disabled newborns be considered, due to the pain and suffering they and their family may have to endure.

I'm in agreement with Simone Aspis, of the British Council of Disabled People: "completely wrong."

One thing I must applaud, however, is the clarity in the whole debate. As in this quote, from John Harris, a a professor of bioethics at Manchester University and member of Britain's Human Genetics Commission:
We can terminate for serious fetal abnormality up to term but cannot kill a newborn. What do people think has happened in the passage down the birth canal to make it OK to kill the fetus at one end of the birth canal but not at the other?
He's in favor of "active euthanasia" by the way. This could be the strongest support I've yet seen for my pro-life views. Even this guy, way on the other side of the debate, knows that partial birth abortion and killing newborns are essentially equivalent.

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