Killing Newborns

Sue Bob's Diary ^ | 12-01-04 | Sue Bob

[Sue Bob]

My paternal grandmother was an active member of Trinity Baptist Church in San Antonio, Texas. One of my most enduring memories was of her taking me to the home of a fellow Baptist female missionary who had spent the 1940's and 1950's in India. This prim and proper spinster had an adopted son who was in college at the time I first met her in the mid 1960's. From where did her son come?

Her son was born of an Indian woman who had taken him, a newborn, to the banks of the Ganges to be laid down so that he would die of exposure along with the other newborns who were stacked in rows along that river. His mother, along with the other Indian women, had decided that it was best for the family and the baby to die rather than to grow up in poverty; as well as a belief that his presence would further plunge the family into destitution. Thank God the spinster missionary disagreed and plucked him from the riverbank to love, raise and educate.

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The Groningen Protocol is something totally different. This is a practice, not of withdrawing treatment and allowing nature to take its course as questionable as that may be in many circumstances, but of active intervention to cause the death of a newborn infant. In other words, physicians in The Netherlands are putting babies to sleep as if they are dogs.