‘Journal of Medical Ethics’ Stands by publication of ‘After-Birth Abortions’ Article

[applepansy]

I'm shocked and almost beyond words. I'm slowly getting angry.

I realize this link is Glen Beck's but the Journal of Medical Ethics has nothing to do with him. he's just pointing out a problem.

Journal of Medical Ethics Defends Publishing ‘After-Birth Abortions’ Article | TheBlaze.com

Here's where the article is and the responses to negative publicity. Journal of Medical Ethics - BMJ Journals


Any thoughts?

[slamjet]

More "theoretical intellectualism" gone amok. A bunch of self-proclaimed smart people and keepers of all ideas that everyone else is too stupid to handle. I thought this type of drivel was dealt with more than 60 years ago with the insanity of the "master race." *sigh* I guess what's old is new again.

[Eowyn]

This whole topic is very upsetting to me.

[applepansy]

I thought so too. We are still recovering from the effects of the "master race" ideas. Yet, here we are again. I'm appalled and sickened that a so-called "respected" medical journal would even print the article. I am surprised that the editors of the JofME are shocked at the response. The response to the article gives me hope that Heavenly Father's children haven't fallen so far yet that the earth needs to be cleansed again. . . . . yet.

[applepansy]

Originally Posted by Eowyn

This whole topic is very upsetting to me.

Me too.

[xforeverxmetalx]

Well, if newborns and fetuses are the same to them, I'd argue that it means that it's wrong to kill both. Works both ways.

Why they came to one conclusion over the other, though, I'll never know.

[Spartan117]

After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?

Severe abnormalities of the fetus and risks for the physical and/or psychological health of the woman are often cited as valid reasons for abortion.

A serious philosophical problem arises when the same conditions that would have justified abortion become known after birth. In such cases, we need to assess facts in order to decide whether the same arguments that apply to killing a human fetus can also be consistently applied to killing a newborn human.

In spite of the oxymoron in the expression, we propose to call this practice ‘after-birth abortion’, rather than ‘infanticide’, to emphasise that the moral status of the individual killed is comparable with that of a fetus (on which ‘abortions’ in the traditional sense are performed) rather than to that of a child. Therefore, we claim that killing a newborn could be ethically permissible in all the circumstances where abortion would be.

[annewandering]

Killing after birth is not abortion. By definition it is infanticide or in other words murder of a baby.
Where did they get such an insane idea? Oh I know. Satan. He is really getting a hold on us. Yes we will all be shocked. Same as we were when abortion was ok'ed. Same as we were at the idea of couples not getting married to live together and raise a family. Same as we were when homosexuality was called gay then demanded marriage. Now those ideas are accepted by a huge part of the population.
He introduces the idea then has a few 'brave' souls defend the idea and then saturates us with the idea to the point it becomes commonplace and we are no longer shocked. Give it a few years and we will see how it goes with this idea.

[Blocky]

The article claims infancide is already practiced in the Netherlands. I wasn't aware of this.

It reminds me of the book The Giver.

[Spartan117]

Sparta must be regarded as the first Völkisch State. The exposure of the sick, weak, deformed children, in short, their destruction, was more decent and in truth a thousand times more humane than the wretched insanity of our day which preserves the most pathological subject, and indeed at any price, and yet takes the life of a hundred thousand healthy children in consequence of birth control or through abortions, in order subsequently to breed a race of degenerates burdened with illnesses -Adolf Hitler

The 'Journal of Medical Ethics' just rationalized Hitler's views on eugenics. Sodom and Gomorrah, eat your hearts out.