Infanticide Goes Mainstream and Why Prolife Arguments Need an Update

LifeSiteNews ^ | 2/22/08 | John Jalsevac

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If we do not study and learn to devastate these theories at their most fundamental intellectual and spiritual core, then we will be left helpless and unprepared to respond as the pro-death movement increasingly uses them to justify embryonic research, destructive assisted reproduction technologies, infant euthanasia, and, inevitably, across the board legalized suicide, assisted suicide, involuntary adult euthanasia and who knows what else in the future.

Unfortunately, he's right, the culture of death is gaining more power every day.

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[Flash Bazbeaux]

Hey, the Nazis were on to this years ago. This article makes it sound like the idea of infanticide is something new.

[wintertime]

the very embodiment of the Culture of Death,

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I call them the “Death Eaters”!

[NoLibZone]

Is McCane for this?

Is this even an issue with conservatives any longer?

[exit82]

And to think, it was only 75 years ago the Nazis came to power.

One lifetime.

Their philosophies have only taken 63 years to take root in our beloved country. If you start with Roe v. Wade in 1973, then it only took 27 plus years.

[MississippiMan]

This article, disturbing but accurate, is a manifestation of just how far this society has fallen. And continues to fall, day by day. And IMO, it also brings home the most unfortunate reality that the GOP in its current state is no longer capable of putting up an effective fight against the rot of liberalism. The country has grown more liberal by the day, no matter how much of the government was controlled by the allegedly conservative GOP. Conservatism, as led by the current GOP, has been retreating in the face of liberalism.

The real problem goes far beyond the political realm, of course.

MM (in TX)

[MizSterious]

You only need one argument for most: pictures of the wee one in the womb. These new pics speak much more eloquently than anything I can think of to say. (And I know of at least TWO cases personally where these pics have save three little lives—one set of twins, and a single baby.)

[Anti-Hillary]

Obama SUPPORTS infanticide!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Read this: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24481

[Clintonfatigued]

That is absolutely terrifying.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Interesting reading can be found at Wesley Smith's own website as well!

[redgolum]

The trouble is, to argue with someone that killing a baby is wrong, you both first have to have the idea that killing anyone for no reason is wrong. For someone like Singer, that is not even an issue. And that is the problem we are facing. Life beyond one's self is not viewed as "real" to many of this culture.

[wagglebee]

And IMO, it also brings home the most unfortunate reality that the GOP in its current state is no longer capable of putting up an effective fight against the rot of liberalism. The country has grown more liberal by the day, no matter how much of the government was controlled by the allegedly conservative GOP. Conservatism, as led by the current GOP, has been retreating in the face of liberalism.

The Whig Party of the early-to-mid 19th Century totally lost track of it's purpose and went rapidly downhill after the deaths of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster in 1852. By 1856 they collapsed over slavery and the southern Whigs mainly went to the Democrats and most of the rest formed the GOP. Within four years the GOP elected Lincoln president and the GOP (aided by the Civil War and Reconstruction) became the dominant party for the next several decades.

Today the GOP has abandoned its conservative roots and has become a slightly more moderate version of the Democrats. I'm all for seeing a new Conservative Party take hold on a national level; it will be bad for several years, but at least we will all be on the same page.

[Cicero]

Infanticide and bestiality both went mainstream when Princeton University offered a distinguished chair to Professor Peter Singer. I think Princeton should be held accountable.

[HoosierHawk]

Isn’t this “quality-of-life” issue really an attempt to appeal to the emotions of a secular, socialist society to more easily accept the elimination of the weak in an effort to help curb the burgeoning costs of the government-provided health care of those countries?

[KansasGirl]

Infant euthanasia, across the board legalized suicide, assisted suicide, involuntary adult euthanasia coupled with socialized medicine is a scary, scary proposition.

[ME-262]

In a twisted turn of events, as people become more sinful the only way our culture remains half righteous is that the worst among us who kill their own children have to continually convert the children of the righteous among us to their evil since they have not raised up their own heirs. If we train up our children to fight against this moral decay we could slowly gain a foothold by attrition. However we need to get the barren hippies out of our institutions of learning where they seek to convert our kids into theirs.

[SamuraiScot]

The pro-death movement has evolved into a subtler, more radical, and much more dangerous form, a form that requires new intellectual weapons to fight.

As with the Nazis, the Soviets, and for that matter the Aztecs, defeating the modern pro-death movement requires weapons beyond the intellectual ones. But intellectual weapons are the point of the spear.