Doctors Advocate Murder!
Published Mon, Nov 6 2006 12:45 AM
Technorati Tags: Abortion, Health and Wellness, News and Politics
LONDON -- A leading British medical college has called on the health profession to consider euthanasia for seriously disabled newborns.
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology has said that "active euthanasia" should be considered to spare parents the emotional and financial burdens of bringing up such children.
"A very disabled child can mean a disabled family," it says in a formal submission. "If life-shortening and deliberate interventions to kill infants were available, they might have an impact on obstetric decision-making, even preventing some late abortions, as some parents would be more confident about continuing a pregnancy and taking a risk on outcome."
Source: Disabled newborns face verdict - World - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper
I don't think it can be much plainer than that. These doctors are advocating the murder of the newborn simply because of disabilities.
The proposal has been supported by several leading geneticists and medical ethicists.
Joy Delhanty, a professor of human genetics at University College London, said: "I think it is morally wrong to strive to keep alive babies that are going to suffer many months or years of ill-health."
But John Wyatt, a consultant neonatalologist at University College London hospital, called the proposal "social engineering."
"Once you introduce the possibility of intentional killing into medical practice, you change the fundamental nature of medicine," he said.
How right he is. Years ago it became a common, accepted practice to deliberately take the life of an unborn child for the convenience of the "mother". At first, it could only be done under dire circumstances, then it became a right. It's still nothing less than an intentional killing, but we've come to accept it.
Now, a woman can get an abortion in the State of Washington, for any reason she wants to, up through the sixth month of pregnancy. Of course, the argument goes that it isn't a baby until it's born. Instead it's just a clump of foreign cells growing in and feeding off of the woman's body (we can't call her a mother, that would imply that it's a baby). So naturally, it can be removed without any moral objections at all.
We've become so used to this form of casual killing that the next step is obvious. The Royal College knows what it is. They have a pretty euphemism for it to make it less objectionable. They call it "active euthanasia".
I call it murder.
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