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SHOCKING! College Student Argues in Favor of Killing Newborn Babies
Townhall.com ^ | Jan 06, 2018 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 01/05/2018 9:17:39 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom

From the University of Tennessee-Knoxville comes word of a shocking video of a student arguing in favor of infanticide — killing babies up to two-years-old.

The video was filmed by Students for Life of America on the campus of Tennessee’s flagship taxpayer-funded university.

“The idea that someone could support infanticide is incredibly disturbing. Yet, it reflects the kinds of attitudes our staff members and students can face on a daily basis on high school and college campuses,” Students for Life of America president Kristan Hawkins said.

Brenna Lewis, SLA’s Appalachian regional coordinator, recorded one of the encounters in early December with a young man who said he had no problem with aborting two-year-old babies. Click here to watch the entire video.

“The fact of the matter is without communication, we have no way of knowing of you are sentient or not,” the unidentified student said. “It’s no different than this tree. It’s alive, but is it sentient? I don’t know. I cannot communicate with it.”

But what if the baby is two-years-old?

“Can the two year old talk to me? In some instances I’m fairly certain that is,” the student said. “But generally speaking the child still has the inability to communicate. And until we determine that as such at what point does sentience become an issue. We can’t really debate whether or not that is the situation or not.”

Hawkins said that kind of thinking on a university campus is “political correctness gone awry.”

“Life is only valuable if I can talk to it?” she asked.

“When countries such as Iceland normalize the deliberate killing of babies with Down syndrome or states like California want to normalize abortion drugs on campuses, we should not be surprised when students display a wanton disregard for human life,” Hawkins said.

In 2015 the Washington Times reported on a controversy surrounding a statement allegedly written by a Princeton University professor on his faculty page:

“Newborn human babies have no sense of their own existence over time. So killing a newborn baby is never equivalent to killing a person, that is, a being who wants to go on living. That doesn’t mean that it is not almost always a terrible thing to do. It is, but that is because most infants are loved and cherished by their parents, and to kill an infant is usually to do a great wrong to its parents.”

And Christian Research Council  reported on an American University professor who asserted that infants do not “possess in their own right a property that makes it wrong to kill them.”

An unspeakable wickedness has infected many of our public university campuses. What kind of society are we to fund places that advocate for the slaughter of newborn babies? What kind of people have we become to turn a blind eye to such atrocities?


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; infanticide; righttolife
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

I used to do lots of business in the Knoxville area. They then said it wasn’t the Bible Belt. It was the Bible’s Belt Buckle.

How times have changed


21 posted on 01/05/2018 10:28:13 PM PST by llevrok (Swamp nothing! Give Washington DC an enema !)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
I've used this reductio ad absurdum argument many times too one year old. It does get peoples attention which is difficult.

I guess with this guy he thinks it's a good idea. He should be a Muslim they have the same belief.

22 posted on 01/05/2018 11:51:27 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Steve Van Doorn

As Nazi Germany and the Communist regimes of The Soviet Union, China and Cambodia proved, once you accept the principle that any group of innocent human beings can be killed for the convenience of others, then there is no protection for anyone. It’s actually the height of hypocrisy when the media pretends to be outraged when some young mother kills or abandons their newborn infant, when a day before they would be hailing her as a champion of the Constitutional “right” to late term abortion.


23 posted on 01/06/2018 12:59:56 AM PST by littleharbour
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To: RitaOK

AMEN!!! VERY SAD!


24 posted on 01/06/2018 1:33:12 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: littleharbour

“It’s actually the height of hypocrisy when the media pretends to be outraged when some young mother kills or abandons their newborn infant, when a day before they would be hailing her as a champion of the Constitutional “right” to late term abortion.”

I caught on to that years ago. The left is best defined by it’s own hypocrisy.


25 posted on 01/06/2018 4:04:16 AM PST by redfreedom
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To: ifinnegan

It’s too bad that this guy’s mother didn’t share his beliefs.


26 posted on 01/06/2018 4:25:31 AM PST by Russ
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Satanic


27 posted on 01/06/2018 5:05:20 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism us truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: littleharbour

“As Nazi Germany and the Communist regimes of The Soviet Union, China and Cambodia proved, once you accept the principle that any group of innocent human beings can be killed for the convenience of others, then there is no protection for anyone. It’s actually the height of hypocrisy when the media pretends to be outraged when some young mother kills or abandons their newborn infant, when a day before they would be hailing her as a champion of the Constitutional “right” to late term abortion.”

Well put


28 posted on 01/06/2018 5:13:13 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (I don't want better government; I want much less of it.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

So a person must be able to communicate in order to prove that they are worthy of life? In addition to their willingness to kill children in the womb, this further illustrates that lefties are demons at their core.


29 posted on 01/06/2018 5:15:39 AM PST by Hazwaste (Democrats are like slinkies. Only good for pushing down stairs.)
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To: ALASKA
What does it matter who wrote this stuff. That jerk that thinks babies should be killed up to the age of 2 should be locked up dressed in a straight jacket in a rubber room

There is nothing more amazing than watching a baby learning to lift his head up, the first smile and laughter. The first tears. Learning to turn around, to sit, crawl, to stand and finally the first steps.

I feel sorry for mothers that have to work and miss all those beautiful things.

30 posted on 01/06/2018 5:42:42 AM PST by Kaslin (Quid est Veritas?: What Is Truth?)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

I wonder why they left OUT the student’s name, address and phone number?


31 posted on 01/06/2018 6:07:28 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (We are getting even more than we voted for!)
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