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Breakpoint

From Abortion to Assisted Suicide to Infanticide

Breakpoint

Colson Center

Christianity, News Commentary, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

The slope from abortion to infanticide by way of physician-assisted suicide is a slippery one indeed.

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This Point was originally published on August 14, 2020.  

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0:00.0

When any human life is devalued, all human life is devalued.

0:03.6

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with a point.

0:06.0

According to a recent survey, 94% of Belgian doctors

0:09.5

favor after birth abortion for kids that are born with disability,

0:13.2

non-plain English that's called infanticide.

0:15.7

When asked whether it's morally permissible to administer drugs

0:18.6

to end the life of a baby born with a serious but non-lethal,

0:22.4

neonatal condition, 94% of Belgian doctors said yes.

0:26.4

While the survey didn't define non-lethal condition,

0:28.6

it's already permissible in Britain to abort babies

0:31.5

with Down syndrome, cleft liver, club foot.

0:33.8

And to be clear, we're not talking about non-sea doctors

0:35.7

or North Korea or Chinese party officials.

0:38.0

Belgium is a Western highly educated democratic modern nation.

0:41.7

But not coincidentally, they have the most liberal

0:44.0

assisted suicide laws.

0:45.8

You see certain ideas make other ideas thinkable.

0:48.0

It's how the unimaginable becomes acceptable.

0:50.2

The slope from abortion to infanticide

0:52.3

by way of doctor assisted suicide is a slippery one indeed.

0:56.1

I'm John Stone Street.

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