Category: Infanticide

By Wesley J. Smith German doctors were hanged at Nuremberg for killing disabled infants — part of the medical Holocaust. That same act — killing a baby because he or she is disabled or terminally ill — is now accepted with a shrug in the Netherlands under a bureaucratic infanticide checklist known as the Groningen …

By Right to Life UK ‘After-birth abortion’ or infanticide for babies with a disability is supported by more than 9 in 10 Belgian physicians surveyed, a shocking new research paper into abortion attitudes has revealed.  A poll of healthcare professionals in Flanders, Belgium found 93.6% of physicians surveyed “agree that in the event of a …

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. As is our custom now, every other day or so, we are reposting a particularly relevant story that appeared exactly one year prior. This post is particularly apropos for you will see, in a separate story today, that media apologists for Democrats again minimize and ignore the party’s unwaverign support …

By Dave Andrusko “God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms. Drip. Drip. Drip.”  — John Newton, from the film, “Amazing Grace.” Newton, at one time a slave trader, penned that great hymn following his conversion. William Wilberforce was born in 1759 in Yorkshire, England. Unfortunately, Wilberforce is not known today nearly as well …

By Wesley J. Smith The Senate is planning to vote the week after next on S.311, “The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.” Here are its core terms: Congress finds the following:(1) If an abortion results in the live birth of an infant, the infant is a legal person for all purposes under the laws of the …

By Texas Right to Life Trinity Lewis, mother of Baby Tinslee, spoke out about her daughter’s case for the first time since last Thursday’s anti-Life ruling and the following reprieve the family won on Friday. Trinity stated the 10-Day Rule “takes away my job as her mother and let’s other people who do not even …

Autonomy over Human Dignity By John Stonestreet & Roberto Rivera Among the pagan practices vanquished by early Christians was infanticide. As Christianity fades in the West, so do our defenses against infanticide in all its grisly forms. Since its beginning, the pro-life movement has argued that the logic that justified abortion-on-demand could, at some point, …

By Sarah Terzo Philosopher Peter Singer, who supports killing disabled infants on the grounds that they are not yet “people,” wrote “During the next 35 years, the traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse….only a rump of hardcore, know-nothing religious fundamentalists will defend the view that every human life, from conception to …