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dixiegrrrrl

(60,153 posts)
Tue Jul 30, 2013, 02:46 PM Jul 2013

Killing babies no different from abortion, experts say [View all]

Parents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed because they are “morally irrelevant” and ending their lives is no different to abortion, a group of medical ethicists linked to Oxford University has argued.
The article, published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, says newborn babies are not “actual persons” and do not have a “moral right to life”.
The academics also argue that parents should be able to have their baby killed if it turns out to be disabled when it is born.

The journal’s editor, Prof Julian Savulescu, director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, said the article's authors had received death threats since publishing the article. He said those who made abusive and threatening posts about the study were “fanatics opposed to the very values of a liberal society”.


Link to rest of story and to Journal article itself:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9113394/Killing-babies-no-different-from-abortion-experts-say.html

This feels like a false flag story, to me.Note the use of "liberal society" being painted as supporting infanticide.

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The link to the article the story is based on is a dead. Just Saying Jul 2013 #1
Try this KamaAina Jul 2013 #6
Thank you Just Saying Jul 2013 #10
Futile care HockeyMom Jul 2013 #2
The futile care law in Texas was signed by none other than KamaAina Jul 2013 #7
Yeesh. That is a tough one Boom Sound 416 Jul 2013 #20
Likening women who have a medical procedure to a killer? Nice rw BS NightWatcher Jul 2013 #3
The story then goes on to say that George Zimmerman showed up to rescue the babies, right? blm Jul 2013 #4
LOL! Rex Jul 2013 #9
I call bullshit. n/t backscatter712 Jul 2013 #5
I wish people wouldn't say stupid shit like this. LuvNewcastle Jul 2013 #8
Yes, they commonly make the argument GlashFordan Jul 2013 #16
This article in the Telegraph is from Feb of 2012. PoliticAverse Jul 2013 #11
Appreciate that info.. dixiegrrrrl Jul 2013 #13
Here's a great DUer! longship Jul 2013 #15
the link works, regardless the veracity Puzzledtraveller Jul 2013 #12
Read the book SheilaT Jul 2013 #14
Obviously written by a parent of a teenager......lol. dixiegrrrrl Jul 2013 #18
What crap BainsBane Jul 2013 #17
Sounds like "Pre-persons" by Phillip K. Dick Downwinder Jul 2013 #19
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