2012 Liberal Jackass Quotes of the Year - #2

Alberto Giubilini & Francesca Minerva (Ethical Sociopaths)

"The moral status of an infant is equivalent to that of a fetus in the sense that both lack those properties that justify the attribution of a right to life to an individual...Both a fetus and a newborn certainly are human beings and potential persons, but neither is a 'person' in the sense of 'subject of a moral right to life.'  We take 'person' to mean an individual who is capable of attributing to her own existence some (at least) basic value such that being deprived of this existence represents a loss to her."

- From an article in the "Journal of Medical Ethics"...The article is "After-birth abortion:  Why should the baby live?"

Yes, you should probably re-read the statement and title of the article above.

You'd think we live in ancient Sparta, where they left their 'other-than-perfect' babies out on a hill for the wolves to 'take care of'...These genius 'ethicists' were only talking about 'aborting' babies born with handicaps right? - as if that's a good enough reason.

"(After birth abortions) should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled."

Get the phuck out!

It used to be abortions were only done up to a point where the fetus was considered 'viable' (somewhere around 26 weeks).  Then they started doing partial birth abortions up until the child was born...Now they want to kill these innocent little guys after being born?

Where does it stop; how far "after birth" can we kill people?  If granny has a stroke and leans to the left while drooling all over herself, since she's been 'born' should she be a candidate for an "after birth abortion" because she's a pain in the arse?

Really?!  Have we degenerated this far?

Of course you say:  Pero, get a grip.  These lunatics are on the outer fringe...OK, maybe you are right.  TODAY they are the fringe, just like those who pushed abortions past the point of 'viability'.  It won't be long until 'inviable' simply means:  'eh, we don't want to deal with em - regardless of how young or old.'

Off the subject:  How much do you want to bet these 'ethical' morons think it's inhumane to execute murderers or waterboard terrorists?