Dennisw said “Not when the fetus is older and viable. In sterner traditional societies these kind of “births” were left to die. This kind of abandonment of non viables has gone on forever especially when a tribe or family has limited resources.”
Your use of the word ‘viable’ is misguided at best. You do not know what would have happened with any of those births had the lives not been snuffed out too early. The best way to judge that is to look at people who have these afflictions who did live, many of which are more than ‘viable’ human beings.
You reference to the concept of harsher societies that have abandoned sickly infants is really no better. We are not such a society and we would not be improved by becoming one. And even saying that much is giving in to your first mistake rather than pointing out that many innocents who have been murdered because of the lie of ‘viability’ may very well have done far better than was predicted by a the humanist element of our society.
This reminds me of an ongoing frustration I’ve had with reading on freerepublic that many people here like to make a huge disticntion between being socially conservative vs. being economically conservative. I cannot agree with those ‘social conservatives’ who are willing to mess up with liberal economics nor with those ‘economic conservatives’ who are willing to go the Marxist route with things like abortion/euthanisia arguments.
We all share a common enemy. And that enemy is Marxism. What we need to do is realize that Marxism can win on either front and then just take over on the other. If you give them one, you might as well just give up all together.
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FSM Said: “I cannot agree with those ‘social conservatives’ who are willing to mess up with liberal economics nor with those ‘economic conservatives’ who are willing to go the Marxist route with things like abortion/euthanasia arguments.”
Diana says:
The Naked Communist by Cleon Skoussen, former FBI Agent, 1958. (This information is also contained in the Congressional Record for 1963.)
#10 - Capture one or BOTH of the political parties in the USA.
They’ve got one and they’re seriously gaining ground in the other. It’s maddening!
Forest. Trees. Cut a few down and see clearly, Freepers!