How does that headline grab you? I wish it were merely for shock value. It is not. That is an actual summary of the ideas put forth by a group of medical ethicists at Oxford University in a recent article in the UK Telegraph. You can follow that link to read the details of the semantic wiggling and philosophical buffoonery that leads to their conclusion, but lets consider the actual title of Telegrapharticle, which is:
“Killing babies no different from abortion, experts say”
Now, I actually agree with that premise. After all, abortion and what the Oxford ethicists call “post birth abortion” clearly kills something… a living, growing something. Further, a living growing something that is human… we would all agree with that. So the obvious question is, “WHAT?” What is it that is being killed? Just using the obvious, what is being killed is a living growing human. Both in “traditional abortion” and in the newly proposed “post birth abortion” the same type of thing is being killed; a living growing human. So I would agree with the Oxford ethics group in the title of the Telegraph article; killing babies is no different from abortion. That’s the point isn’t it!? That’s what pro-life argumentation has said all along!
Of course in the article the folks at Oxford agree that the newborns are living growing humans… but they say they are not “persons”. My question would be, “What’s the difference?” What is the difference between a human being and a person? I pose that question to you the reader. As food for thought, consider this line of reasoning from the great minds at Stand to Reason (str.org) in their article: Are Humans Persons?
Update – May 1st 2012:
Check out the philosophical and ethical road that led here in this jarring briefing in STR’s Solid Ground publication.
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Killing newborns and abortion are exactly the same thing-they both take an innocent, beautiful human life.
We have to realize that we’re devolving right back to where we were during the holocaust. The loss of human compassion and civilized thought is once again reducing us to mindless apes preying on whatever we can to assume the next morsel for our own. While some may say they disagree with these Oxford philosophies, if we stand by and do nothing, we are part of the problem. it is time to turn the tide on what we are as a species, and take a stand against the devolution.
What we have to realize the most here is the central theme of eugenics are at the core of this, and [not surprisingly] even Winston Churchill was a believer in this system [a proponent] and clearly held some value of the practical applications of the eugenicists of his time. This is nothing more than an expounding on these beliefs… however perverse they may be to any that value all human life- from whichever perspective one might come from.
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