HUMAN RIGHTS: Academics who rationalise post-natal murder*

A recent article in the English Journal of Medical Ethics has argued that new-born babies may be killed because they are “morally irrelevant”, are not “actual persons” and have no “moral right to life”, London’s Daily Telegraph reported on February 29.
The co-authors start from the position of Professor Peter Singer that there is no such thing as a human essence with inalienable rights. A new-born baby to them is just like a foetus: “both lack…

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