Dr Paul Allen

English: Infant smiling (1 month old) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) First what does the Old Testament say about the death of children and their destiny. 1) Infants belong to God in a special and particular way. In Ezekiel, God describes the slaughter of children born into pagan families as a slaughter of “my children” (Ezek 16:21). This expression of ownership by God over children born into idol worshiping families is stark, and implies God’s care for those children in a personal way. 2) God describes children as “having no knowledge of good and evil” (Deut 1:39). They have a sin nature, but they sin in the way that gravity works: they are pulled down. They do not sin in the way that adults do: adults love sin. Children default to sin, while adults run there. 3) God refers to Gentile children as unable to discern the difference between right and wrong (Jonah 4:11). Children are born with a sin nature, and even babies love to sin. But they do so without appreciating why they are doi...

Image via Wikipedia An article published in February in the international, peer-reviewed  Journal of Medical Ethics  is making headlines around the world. In the article, former Cambridge and Oxford University researchers Dr.  Alberto Giubilini  and Dr.  Francesca Minerva  argue the very point pro-life advocates have said all along: There is no essential difference between a fetus and a newborn, and their moral status is the same.  Pro-life supporters should be elated. But we’re not. In claiming that unborn children and newborn children are morally equivalent, Giubilini and Minerva are not arguing for the right to life. To the contrary, the  article advocates what the authors term “after-birth abortion.” The British tabloid   The Sun  put it a bit more starkly in a  headline last week: “Slaughter Newborn Kids, Say Academics.”  The Telegraph ’s  headline  sums it up this way: “ Killing Babies Is No Different Fr...