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medical ethicists
Maybe they won't be considered a human with full rights to life until they are 4 or 5 and develop the ability to form memories about their experiences.
Originally posted by RealSpoke
If a newborn is extremely disabled or born with a chronic illness the parents should be able to decide if they want to apply euthanasia or not.
Pulling the plug on a brain dead person is technically murder yet you see no one crying over that.
Originally posted by gecrazy
reply to post by Unity_99
I just don't get why people think abortion is wrong. yes i do believe that your killing a living being ,but what if that person became pregnant by someone who raped her? I think everybody should have the right to have an abortion. And be happyedit on 29-2-2012 by gecrazy because: (no reason given)
They also argued that parents should be able to have the baby killed if it turned out to be disabled without their knowing before birth, for example citing that “only the 64 per cent of Down’s syndrome cases” in Europe are diagnosed by prenatal testing.
Originally posted by DelMar
I could probably make a good case for killing just about anybody. Why stop with disabled babies when we can really take a chunk out of the older population as well. Might as well throw in anyone that opposes my plan for world domination, or that looks at me wrong, or that seems unfit....