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.

To Judge, to Examine or to Condemn ?

Matthew 7:1–5 (NKJV)

¹“Judge not, that you be not judged. 

²For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. 

³And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? 

⁴Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? 

⁵Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

John 7:24 (NKJV)

²⁴Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”

In these first two scriptures the judge or judgement is defined as - to condemn.  So we, as Christians, are called not to condemn others.  However...  

1 Corinthians 2:15 (NKJV)

¹⁵But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.

Here we see the word for Judge means - to examine.  So we are called to examine one another's actions with a spiritual mindset.  Not to scrutinize each others actions.  ie... I would have done it this way or that or even to scrutinize one's own actions by saying I would have done better if I had just...  But to examine whether or not there is sin being committed, is justified by examining the deeds or fruits of others.  To bring it all together...

1 Corinthians 4:3–5 (NKJV)

³But with me it is a very small thing that I should be [examined] by you or by a human court. In fact, 

I do not even [examine, scrutinize] myself. 

⁴For I know of nothing against myself, yet I am not justified by this; but He who [examines] me is the Lord. 

⁵Therefore [pass judgment on or condemn] nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, 

who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each one’s praise will come from God.