Murder of Newborn Babies in Infanticide as Bad as Abortion

LifeNews: The following remarks were made by Congressman Chris Smith, Republican from New Jersey and the head of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, during a hearing on the decision by the Obama administration to deny to the nation’s Catholic bishops a grant for a program helping sex trafficking victims because they would not refer for abortions.  

Giubilini and Minerva say the devaluation of newborn babies is inextricably linked to the devaluation of unborn children, and is indeed the logical extension of the abortion culture, and wrote that they, “propose to call the practice afterbirth abortion rather than infanticide to emphasize that the moral status of the individual killed—the newborn baby—is comparable with that of a fetus… Whether she will exist is exactly what our choice is about.”

These anti-child, pro-murder rationalizations remind me of other, equally disturbing rants from highly credentialed individuals. Princeton’s Peter Singer suggested a couple of years ago that, “There are various things you could say that are sufficient to give some moral status [to a child] after a few months, maybe six months or something like that, and you get perhaps to full moral status, really, only after two years.”

Dr. James Watson, Nobel laureate for unraveling the mystery of DNA, wrote in Prism Magazine, “If a child were not declared alive until three days after birth, then all parents could be allowed the choice only a few are given under the present system. The doctor could allow the child to die if the parents so choose and save a lot of misery and suffering. I believe this view is the only rational, compassionate attitude to have.”

In like manner, Dr. Francis Crick, who received the Nobel Prize with Watson, said that, “…no newborn infant should be declared human until it has passed certain tests regarding its genetic endowment and that if it fails these tests it forfeits the right to live.”

The dehumanization of newborns isn’t new but it’s getting worse. Giubilini and Minerva’s article must be a wakeup call.