The Logical Consistency of Infanticide
Many are outraged at the recent news of
Dutch-government-sanctioned infant and child euthanasia. How
unthinkable that a parent or a doctor could determine that a child’s life is
not worth living and based on that decision end that life. The connection to
abortion is obvious and probably doesn’t need to be made, but I will make it
anyway.
In society’s race to run ourselves deeper and deeper into
godlessness and depravity, we see a pattern: What was unthinkable 20 years ago
is commonplace now and what is unthinkable today will likely be commonplace 20
years from now. While it may seem obvious to many Americans – but I dare not
think all – that it is morally wrong, regardless of your political or religious
views, for a doctor or a parent to decide that a young child should cease to
live, that view is totally inconsistent with abortion. And as Planned Parenthood’s
statement view that abortion (the murder of an unborn baby) is a right of every
woman becomes more commonplace in society, the next step is inevitable.
Let’s take a look at the reasons why women in the US report they
choose to have an abortion. According to these
statistics which are pretty consistent with most that I have found.
- 25.5% of
women deciding to have an abortion want to postpone childbearing.
- 21.3% of
women cannot afford a baby.
- 14.1% of
women have a relationship issue or their partner does not want
a
child.
- 12.2% of
women are too young (their parents or others object to the
pregnancy.)
- 10.8% of
women feel a child will disrupt their education or career.
- 7.9% of
women want no (more) children.
- 3.3% of women
have an abortion due to a risk to fetal health.
- 2.8% of
women have an abortion due to a risk to maternal health.
Only 6% of abo
rtions have anything to do with the health of
the child or mother (the argument at present for euthanasia in the Netherlands);
all others basically end up saying, “The cost of this baby on my life or on
society outweighs the value of its life; and therefore, because I can, I choose
to end this child’s life.” What happens is that the powerful, in essence create
life with a decision. If the mother decides that the fetus is a child, it’s a
child with the right to life granted it; if the mother decides that the fetus
is inconvenient and therefore not living but a mass of parasitic tissue, then
it is not life. The powerful get to play God.
The “positive” effects of abortion on society are well
documented. In the interested book Freakonomics
an entire chapter entitled, “Where Have All the Criminals Gone?” shows how Roe
v Wade enabled those who could not care for their children (a high
proportion of those children would have grown up to become criminals), to kill
them before they were born, which resulted in the decreased crime rates seen in
the 1990’s. Since prenatal testing for trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome) and other
genetic abnormalities began, the load on society from children born with these
diseases has plummeted along with birth
rates (more).
With abortion proving such a success in the curtailing of inconvenience
and cost, what’s to stop the age of “termination of metabolic processes” to
increase? There really is no difference between a fetus and a neonate or a
neonate and an infant (…) except for their size, level of development, environment,
and degree of dependency (Klusendorf).
The next logical step for our world (Peter
Singer is already there; at least he’s consistent) will be to begin selective
reduction dependent neonates and infants. This will likely begin as the Dutch
have and then continue to run down the slippery slope:
- Euthanize
children in pain
- Euthanize
children with short, but expensive life expectancies
- Euthanize
children whose parents can't afford them
- Euthanize
children whose parents don't want them
- Euthanize
children who society doesn't want
- Euthanize adult’s that society doesn’t
want
This will likely prove very positive economically, will
relieve parents and society of the unfair obligation to provide sustenance and
care for parasitic, dependent children who actually offer very little to
society (but are only potential contributors, only
potential
life).
So while I am grieved by the Dutch decision, I am certainly
not surprised. Apart from a miraculous switch in the direction our world is
headed in our view of all human life regardless of size, level of development, environment,
or degree of dependence - created by God in His image – I expect many more
decisions like this in many more countries occurring with increasing frequency
and with increasingly blatant irreverence for life.
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