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?
These attempts at philosophizing are just pathetic.
Building eductive arguments on a premise fit for third grade.
Liberal art departments across the country need to be closed.
Stat.
Shows what happens when you allow half-baked thinkers like Peter Singer into philosophy departments.
Who writes this stuff? Do they get paid?
Unless the baby is transgender.
Conservatives, ( the “patriotic” ) ceded academia to Marx decades ago. We even sacrifice our own children to the public school “system” and its curriculum so we can pursue our careers and go buy stuff. Then we march the kids off to college to be “finished”.
Tagline of mine works here.
Words fail me, were a dying Society
“The youth of today is ever the people of tomorrow. For this reason we have set before ourselves the task of inoculating our youth with the spirit of this community of the people at a very early age, at an age when human beings are still unperverted and therefore unspoiled. *** This Reich stands, and it is building itself up for the future, upon its youth. And this new Reich will give its youth to no one, but will itself take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing.”- Adolph Hitler, 1 May 1937.
Honestly, the First Amendment is what allows idiots like these college students to let us know the full stupidity of their ideas. I’m glad they let us know.
I guess this is the problem with modern education. He likely thought Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” was a serious women’s reproductive rights public policy paper.
Well, maybe we should kill you, dead to humanity as you are."
Why does the Left always want to kill everything that doesn’t contribute to their well-being, fun, ego and so on?
One thing we know is that this student has no soul.
Replace infant with slave and parent with owner and it's clear how these people view children.
The guy is a moron and doesn’t know what sentient means.
Well universities are dying, that’s for sure.
deductive
You have a point. Certainly their free speech declares the certainty of our increasingly Godless and possibly imminent demise.
Knowing about it, however, is different from doing something about it.
The AH quote is eerie isn’t it. Thanks. I think.
Rita
Shortly after Roe v a Wade, Phillip K Dick wrote a short story called The Pre-Persons. In it kids could be “aborted” up to age 12.
A couple articles about the story.
http://truthandcharityforum.org/the-pre-persons-saw-the-horrors-of-abortion-in-1974/
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