Saturday, May 5, 2012

Taking a scythe to the Bill of Rights - The Washington Post

Taking a scythe to the Bill of Rights - The Washington Post: "Controversies can be wonderfully clarified when people follow the logic of illogical premises to perverse conclusions. For example, two academics recently wrote in the British Journal of Medical Ethics that “after-birth abortions” — killing newborn babies — are matters of moral indifference because newborns, like fetuses, “do not have the same moral status as actual persons” and “the fact that both are potential persons is morally irrelevant.”"

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