As someone once said, "Bioethics: we call it that because "the-science-of-figuring-out-who-we-can-kill"
is too long.
The two are quick to note that they prefer the term “after-birth abortion“ as opposed to ”infanticide.” Why? Because it “[emphasizes] that the moral status of the individual killed is comparable with that of a fetus (on which ‘abortions’ in the traditional sense are performed) rather than to that of a child.”
The authors also do not agree with the term euthanasia for this practice as the best interest of the person who would be killed is not necessarily the primary reason his or her life is being terminated.
Ah yes, good old Monash University. We know it well.
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3 comments:
"Send forth Thy Spirit and they shall be created and Thou shalt renew the face of the Earth". Oh Lord! Do it now!
Chloe
As a friend of mine said, "ethics" is what you get when you don't have morals.
Oh Lord, we beseech Thee: If Thy Spirit should happen to be engaged Elsewhere, please let brains rain down from Thy Heaven, since there most certainly is a shortage of them about ....
Zwetschgenkrampus
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