IF A doctor deliberately kills, even a 24 week-old, unborn child, with the mother’s consent, it is classed, coldly, as a “termination”.
If a doctor were to kill the unborn child against the mother’s wishes, it is then treated as unlawful “child destruction”.
If a doctor reached into an incubator and killed a premature baby of 24 weeks, this would be murder.
Effectively, the criterion applied to determine whether the baby has been murdered or not depends, solely, on the fact of whether the baby was behind a few layers of skin and tissue at the time of his or her death.
We are rightly horrified at the barbaric way our ancient ancestors callously disposed of their unwanted infants, with many being asphyxiated, drowned, “sacrificed” or simply left to die, etc.
Are we really more “enlightened” and “civilised” than they were, just because we’ve sanitised and legitimised the whole abhorrent practise of destroying the unborn with the help of doctors and nurses, “advice clinics” and the most chilling of all the euphemisms - “treatment”?
James Hayes-Carter
Cardiff
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