Posted on 09/02/2021 4:41:33 PM PDT by MNDude
Abortion is largely accepted even for reasons that do not have anything to do with the fetus' health. By showing that (1) both fetuses and newborns do not have the same moral status as actual persons, (2) the fact that both are potential persons is morally irrelevant and (3) adoption is not always in the best interest of actual people, the authors argue that what we call ‘after-birth abortion’ (killing a newborn) should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled.
The moral status of an infant is equivalent to that of a fetus, that is, neither can be considered a ‘person’ in a morally relevant sense.
It is not possible to damage a newborn by preventing her from developing the potentiality to become a person in the morally relevant sense.
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The fetus and the newborn are potential persons Although fetuses and newborns are not persons, they are potential persons because they can develop, thanks to their own biological mechanisms, those properties which will make them ‘persons’ in the sense of ‘subjects of a moral right to life’: that is, the point at which they will be able to make aims and appreciate their own life ... If criteria such as the costs (social, psychological, economic) for the potential parents are good enough reasons for having an abortion even when the fetus is healthy, if the moral status of the newborn is the same as that of the foetus and if neither has any moral value by virtue of being a potential person, then the same reasons which justify abortion should also justify the killing of the potential person when it is at the stage of a newborn.
(Excerpt) Read more at jme.bmj.com ...
Biden voters. Why should they live?
If they were Biden voters why would the left not want them to be born and then grow up and vote?
On the plus side: The United States has replaced all other nations or regimes in all of human history as the leader in mass genocide...
Sure makes an american proud... Americans are the greatest butchers in the directly known universe...
Is murder still a crime in this country?
Newborn babies are dehumanized by the same people who dehumanize preborn babies.
The key mechanism for doing so is dehumanizing the biological fathers of the babies by portraying them as incompetent or deserters by default.
That portrayal paves the way for portraying the mothers of the babies as the only real parent in practice, as the owners of the babies, which in turn results in the babies being treated as the property of the mothers to be disposed of based on the mother’s decision.
That is the foundation of the Woman’s Right to Choose (to kill the couple’s baby) ideology.
I finally found the quote I tried to remember about the living baby now outside the womb: The Atlantic,Feb.4, 2019 on Gov. Northam——
“Northam appeared to suggest that it would permit a physician to deny medical care to a newborn infant: “The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”
This has to be sick, sick stuff. But other articles below it said “Can the Religious Right get any crazier” than to oppose this!
why should the baby live? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Because the Good Lord will strike you down and you will rot in hell for ever.
Who’s freakin’ medical ethics???
Dr. Mengele???
C'mon! Give me a good reason!
Killing babies is love.
Our government is made up of people that are convinced that the world is overpopulated but
they are unwilling to volunteer for the trip themselves, they have no concern for others so
there is nothing left to discuss.
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“Northam appeared to suggest that it would permit a physician to deny medical care to a newborn infant: “The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”
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And that f*r is governor.
OK, maybe Texas should make it a felony to distribute this alleged journal of medical ethics in Texas, like child pornography. And then make infant murder a mandatory capital offense.
But, let’s run the numbers. If they live to 18, half might bote Republican. The dead all vote Democrat.
I would challenge these barbarians to notice just how soon a woman who is happy about her pregnancy starts calling that person growing inside of her as “her baby”.
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