Medical Ethicists Say Infanticide is OK for Gay Newborns

Drudge linked to this story about some British medical ethicists who say that if you are going to allow abortion for women, then you may as well allow babies to be put to death before they develop a sense of self-awareness. The study is alarming quite a few people, but they do have a point. If the infant is deformed, gay or normal, there is no moral difference between killing a newborn and killing a fetus.

From the Telegraph here:

As such the ethicists argued it was “not possible to damage a newborn by preventing her from developing the potentiality to become a person in the morally relevant sense”.

The authors therefore concluded 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”.

Parents should be able to have the baby killed if it turned out to be disabled without their knowing before birth.

“To bring up such children might be an unbearable burden on the family and on society as a whole, when the state economically provides for their care.”

However, they did not argue that some baby killings were more justifiable than others – their fundamental point was that, morally, there was no difference to abortion as already practised.

I don’t think they were advocating for abortion or infanticide. But if abortion is morally justified, why not infanticide? I just hope liberals don’t start trying to legalize killing newborns- but if they do, and if a “gay gene” is discovered, watch how fast they will try to protect the gay babies from “hate post birth abortions.”