[Prov3456]

saying that life begins after the birth of the baby, or even several hours later

That is already happening. Consider Peter Singer. He's an Australian ethicist who works/teaches at Princeton, if I remember correctly. He believes it should be permissable to kill newborns up to 28 days old because they "don't have a sense of their own existence" until at least that age. Really scary stuff!

[murron]

It’s the slippery slope that we’ve all feared.