Wednesday, August 07, 2013

Medical Ethicists From Oxford University: Newborn Babies Not “Actual Persons", Do Not Have a “Moral Right to Life”

"'After-Birth Abortion’ (Killing a Newborn) Should Be Permissible In All The Cases where Abortion Is"


From The Telegraph:
“The moral status of an infant is equivalent to that of a fetus in the sense that both lack those properties that justify the attribution of a right to life to an individual.” 
Rather than being “actual persons”, newborns were “potential persons”. 
They explained: “Both a fetus and a newborn certainly are human beings and potential persons, but neither is a ‘person’ in the sense of ‘subject of a moral right to life’. 
“We take ‘person’ to mean an individual who is capable of attributing to her own existence some (at least) basic value such that being deprived of this existence represents a loss to her.” 
As such they argued it was “not possible to damage a newborn by preventing her from developing the potentiality to become a person in the morally relevant sense”. 
The authors therefore concluded 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”. 
They preferred to use the phrase “after-birth abortion” rather than “infanticide” to “emphasise that the moral status of the individual killed is comparable with that of a fetus”.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well it was only a matter of time for libs to take this stance. Next step might be, "Those THINGS aren't humans until they can actually talk and EXPRESS their feelings..."

Something else I'm expecting soon in schools and government sponsored programs, "Heterosexual behavior is abnormal and needs to be treated by a psychiatrist."

And then polygamy, etc.

What I see with libs and Muslims, I am always reminded of this Arabic saying that says something like, "Let the camel put its head in the tent at night, you'll wake up in the morning with the whole camel in the tent and you thrown out."

Wish all the world's conservatives would just gather and create a country of their own. The world does not seem like a place worth fighting for anymore.

Nicoenarg

Pastorius said...

I had not anticipated the anti-hetero movement, but now that you mention it, yeah, it will probably happen.

Always On Watch said...

So, now infanticide is fine and dandy?

EVIL IS WINNING!

Anonymous said...

These are the same people who would have supported the Nazis in the 30s and now they feel safe coming out with their completely evil philosophies because incrementally the left has been reducing us to base animals. They see that and now even the most horrific of ideas that they have will now see the light of day

Epaminondas said...

define MORAL
define ethics

A NEW DARK AGE IS COMING.