Saturday, January 24

WE COULD SEE THIS ONE COMING
(Saturday) From the Telegraph: Professor John Harris, a member of the British Medical Association's ethics committee, said that it was not "plausible to think that there is any moral change that occurs during the journey down the birth canal" - suggesting that there was no moral difference between aborting a foetus and killing a baby. Link

Harris was suggesting that there infanticide might be justified in cases of a child carrying a genetic disorder that remained undetected during pregnancy.

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