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Unbelievable: Ethics Argue Killing Newborn Babies Should Be Allowed
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A paper published in the Journal of Medical Ethics argues that abortion should be extended to make the killing of newborn babies permissible, even if the baby is perfectly healthy, in a shocking example of how the medical establishment is still dominated by a eugenicist mindset.
The paper is authored by Alberto Giubilini of Monash University in Melbourne and Francesca Minerva at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne.
The authors argue that
“both fetuses and newborns do not have the same moral status as actual persons,
” and that because abortion is allowed even when there is no problem with the fetus’ health,
“killing a newborn should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled.
”
“The fact that both are potential persons is morally irrelevant,” the authors claim, arguing that adoption is not a reasonable counter-argument because the parents of the baby might be economically or psychologically burdened the process and the mother may “suffer psychological distress”.
How the mother could not also “suffer psychological distress” by having her newborn baby killed is not explained
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