After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?

Here is an article that I was made aware of today.  I have included the abstract and the conclusion to show the jist of the article (the link to the article will be some where below).

ABSTRACT

Abortion is largely accepted even for reasons that do not have anything to do with the fetus’ health. By showing that (1) both fetuses and newborns do not have the same moral status as actual persons, (2) the fact that both are potential persons is morally irrelevant and (3) adoption is not always in the best interest of actual people, the authors argue that what we call ‘after-birth abortion’ (killing a newborn) should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled.

CONCLUSIONS

If criteria such as the costs (social, psychological, economic) for the potential parents are good enough reasons for having an abortion even when the fetus is healthy, if the moral status of the newborn is the same as that of the infant and if neither has any moral value by virtue of being a potential person, then the same reasons which justify abortion should also justify the killing of the potential person when it is at the stage of a newborn.

Two considerations need to be added.

First, we do not put forward any claim about the moment at which after-birth abortion would no longer be permissible, and we do not think that in fact more than a few days would be necessary for doctors to detect any abnormality in the child. In cases where the after-birth abortion were requested for non- medical reasons, we do not suggest any threshold, as it depends on the neurological development of newborns, which is something neurologists and psychologists would be able to assess.

Second, we do not claim that after-birth abortions are good alternatives to abortion. Abortions at an early stage are the best option, for both psychological and physical reasons. However, if a disease has not been detected during the pregnancy, if some- thing went wrong during the delivery, or if economical, social or psychological circumstances change such that taking care of the offspring becomes an unbearable burden on someone, then people should be given the chance of not being forced to do something they cannot afford.

Full Article

Editors response (in support)

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This is a demonstration of the sad sin nature of mankind.  This is legal in areas of the world...  So when talking to people please be aware of these things so that you have this defense in mind when they claim it could never get to this point.

To show that not all physicians feel the same way, check out the Association of Pro-Life Physicians.

In addition;


Heartchanger.com

Abort73.com has wonderful information and resources.

Abort73.com: Abortion Unfiltered

Where to go from here?  Pray, Pray, Pray...  Then get out to share the gospel, educate and love people.

Chicken Teeth

God has created each creature just as He wished.  Often people are not able to explain things we see.

For instance:

  Science is able to see that chickens have the DNA for teeth.  And what comes to mind is...

But, in reality, it is an egg tooth.  We in our minds envision teeth like us or predatory carnivores.  Many people will even take a jagged beak edge and say that the chicken is trying to form teeth to chew or rip but that is not even how chickens eat as scavengers of grains and such.  

Perhaps we should think outside of the box with an understanding that God knows what He is doing and sometimes (OK often) creates things beyond our comprehension. 

Genesis 1:20–25 (NKJ)

²⁰Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.” 

²¹So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 

²²And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 

²³So the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 

²⁴Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so. 

²⁵And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.