When Relativism Goes Too Far

A bioethicist in the UK - one on the board of the British Medical Association - has declared that there is no difference between aborting a full grown fetus or killing a child who has already been born if they have birth defects. Given that abortion is legal in the UK he is essentially calling for, as the cartoon South Park once put it, retroactive abortion.

He claims that the retro-abortion should be legal only "soon" after the child is born. Who defines soon? Who defines what exactly constitutes a defect qualifiying of retro-abortion? Will it only be the parents that are able to decide, or will any medical professional be able to decide it would be in the person's best interest to be retro-aborted? How soon after birth is soon? A couple days? A couple decades?

This is absolutely ridiculous. What the doctor is proposing is the legalization of murder. He may want to try to twist the truth to make it more palatable, but in the end, murder is still murder.

To think that this guy is a bioethics professor, along with being a member of the BMA ethics committee, is appalling. If he cannot understand the moral implications of murdering children that some might find to be, errrr, undesirable tells me that he has no moral compass whatsoever. The last group to follow through with the elimination of "undesirables" was the Third Reich. Certainly only a very, very few would believe that Himmler and Hitler had the right idea, yet this loon is suggesting implemenation of a small portion of their plan.

Ignoring the moral questions surrounding abortion, there most certainly are serious moral implications associated with retro-actively aborting children. No amount of relativism can change the fact that murder is wrong. To say or suggest otherwise demostrates a sinister streak a mile wide.

I hope, I hope, I hope that this guy comes out and explains how this is all some big misunderstanding, but for some reason I don't see it happening. Too bad that some people just seem to believe that murder should be ok.