abortion
Michael Egnor muses on some shaky arguments for abortion
At the Babylon Bee: Moloch Warns Of Looming Child Sacrifice Supply Chain Issues
At Mind Matters News: There’s no science argument on whether unborn children are human
Michael Egnor at Mind Matters News: Political website’s Christmas gift to readers: promoting abortion
At Evolution News and Science Today: The Appalling Moral Failure of Francis Collins
From the world of Trust Science!: Fetal heartbeats do not exist
Is Planned Parenthood showing signs of weakness?
David Klinghoffer: Evolutionary thinking in a “state of decadence”
Michael Egnor: The cowardice of science organizations on when life begins
Update 2: Springer has forwarded Jerry Coyne’s concern re creationist paper
Did the Allies really defeat the Nazis?
Cross-posted at The Christian Watershed
On May 8, 1945 the German government officially surrendered to the Allied Forces, thus ending the War in Europe (the War in the Pacific would continue another three months). The Nazis was a horrible government that aside from its treatment of the Jewish people and other “unwanted,” regularly practiced infanticide. Their justification for such an action was they believed the perfect human (read: healthiest human) was the Aryan human; all other babies of unwanted races or that were not healthy at birth were killed off.
63 years later we are faced with a Nazi-like mentality once again – this time, however, the threat is occurring in the nations that defeated Nazism in the first place. The London Times has reported that parents are on the verge of having an easy, non-invasive procedure done to determine if their child has Down’s Syndrome. If so, the parents are then left with the choice to abort the pregnancy or prepare for a child with special needs.
I must ask, how is this way of thinking any different from the Nazi mentality of killing off weaker children in order to have a better society? I know that such a question will automatically get people to accuse me of downplaying the Holocaust, attempting to compare a medical procedure to the horrors of the Holocaust, and that somehow I’m an anti-Semite for bringing this issue up (even though I’m an ethnic Jew), but I believe it is a very legitimate question. How is the mentality that it’s okay to abort a child with Down’s Syndrome – because he won’t lead a productive life, is weak, and will be “inadequate” according to our definition of normal – any different from the Nazi way of thinking? Read More ›