First they came for the children, but I said nothing, since I was not a child
More from the ministers of Moloch:http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/feb/08022201.html
Newborns Who Suffer are “Better off Dead” – “World’s Most Prestigious” Bioethics Journal
“Baby is judged to be better off dead than forced to endure the only kind of life it can ever have,” say authors
The revelation that newborn euthanasia was both common and acceptable in the Netherlands was greeted with harsh criticisms from around the world, with one Italian Minister going to far as to accuse the Netherlands of Nazism. Others expressed their disgust that many of the children who were being euthanized by Dutch doctors were children with Spina Bifida, a condition with which many people have lived well into adulthood and had fulfilling lives…
… It would be wiser, they suggest, to kill the child after it is born, if it is then determined to have poor prospects of a “satisfactory” life, than to hide behind the false moral justification of killing the disabled child in utero…
Read the whole thing, and tell when what paragraph the “prestigious bioethicists” begin talking about the parent’s choice or the baby’s rights. The emphasis seems to be on the doctor, or the state, making the decision. My son Orville, who is now a healthy nine-year-old (and just won a second place prize for his pack in Cub Scouts pinewood derby racing) was misdiagnosedwith Spina Bifida. Had he been born in the Netherlands, the enemies of mankind (and all Eugenicists, Fascists, and Friends of Caesar are, in the long run, enemies of mankind) would have killed my beloved son.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
