Infanticide, alas, has become a respectable notion, at least among some elite opinion makers. History shows that this is how baby killing begins — by convincing ourselves that there is such a thing as a human life not worth living, and hence, not worth protecting. By calling for a serious debate about infanticide, the [Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists] has badly subverted the foundational moral principle that each and every human being has equal moral value simply and merely because he or she is human.
When referring to the Holocaust, someone says "Never again," they're lying -- probably to themselves, but it's still a lie.
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"Rod is calling it a Slippery Slope. He's saying it's next on the horizon"
Exactly, and like most "slippery slope" argument it is inherently dishonest. Regardless of your opinions about abortion this is a separate issue. We are not talking about actively ending a life but rather about not prolonging suffering of a terminal patient with treatments which do nothing but postpone the inevitable, often in a way which increases pain and suffering.
The conflation of this issue with abortion, or the equation of a decision to stop treatment with active euthenasia is simply dishonest; a rhetorical trick designed to change the subject and demonize the side you disagree with by painting them as "Nazis" unconcerned with issues of life or death.
That's why I called that argument a "disgusting lie". Because it is.>
Makes you wonder what we fought the Battle of Britain for.
Are you British, Irenaeus?>
Is going on right NOW! Thousand of babies are Murdered daily in the abortion mills of the US...killing is killing no matter how people want to flower it up!>
Is going on right NOW! Millions of bacteria are Murdered daily by the immune system of your body...killing is killing now matter how people want to flower it up! Better go catch an immune deficiency disorder to save all those poor baby bacteria!>
From the review in The New York Times Book Review by Simon Sebag Montefiore of The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by high-profile megahistorian Niall Ferguson:
"The book's poignant heart is the Holocaust, which Ferguson rightly calls 'the first and only industrialized genocide.' It stands without parallel as the most wicked act in all history: 'Other regimes had perpetrated mass murder. ... Yet there was something qualitatively different about the Nazis' war against the Jews and the other unfortunate minorities they considered to be *unworthy of life.* It was the fact that it was carried out by such well-educated people ... perpetrated under the leadership of a man who had come to power by primarily democratic means. The Nazi death machine worked economically, scientifically and euphemistically. ... It was very, very modern.'">
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