After birth abortion
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 From Abortion.” If a newborn will place an "unbearable burden&qu