http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/ ... s-say.html
Killing babies no different from abortion, experts say. 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”.
The article, entitled “After-birth abortion: Why should the baby live?”, was written by two of Prof Savulescu’s former associates, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva.
Between my Eldest and youngest daughter, my wife and I had a miscarriage.
It was one of the most painful experiences of our lives, I don't recall ever feeling so sad and such a tremendous sense of loss ever before.
Our little one taken from us, just like that.
We are thankful to Our Lord for His strength and the strength He gave us.
I can't begin to fathom consciously terminating a child.
