Posted on 12/08/2014 5:23:01 PM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: End-of-life debate turns to newborns: ‘Postnatal abortion’ morally acceptable in some cases, ethicist says
Doctors would be justified to end the lives of some terminally impaired newborn babies, says a prominent Canadian bioethicist in a report that pushes the country’s euthanasia debate into provocative new territory.
Much of the discussion of physician assisted-death in Canada has centred around adult patients capable of making known how they want to end their lives.
But Udo Schuklenk, a Queen’s University philosophy professor, argues that in rare cases of severely impaired, deeply suffering newborns, actively causing death is morally acceptable, if still illegal in this country.
“The parents should be able to freely decide on what would amount to postnatal abortion,” he argues in a paper just published in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
Euthanasia would even be preferable to “terminal sedation,” where food and liquids are removed from a dying patient, because it would save parents and medical staff the distress of seeing a baby waste away over days or weeks, said Prof. Schuklenk.
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Yep. Evil never stands still.
How about we just do a “Late Term” abortion on the mothers and save the newborns!!!
Let’s start with people like Peter Singer, Zeke Emanuel, Jonathan Gruber, Kathleen Sibelius, Michelle and Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Mary Landrieu, ... Let’s not just limit ourselves to those only weeks or months from birth. After all, if we are going to accept evil, let’s embrace it and emphasize with our ultimate enemy, Lucifer.
My savage ancestors from not too long ago threw babies they didn’t want into the ocean to drown. They also practiced human sacrifice and ritual cannibalism. Fortunately, missionaries came and they became Christians in the 1820s.
ethicist? Oh I think not.
Can he parents do it themselves? With a scissors?
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