Infanticide Proposal Is Bigoted and Spiritually Bankrupt

As noted in the previous posting, an OB-GYN group is proposing infanticide for certain newborns whose existence would constitute a burden to their families, burdens that are probably economical and which keeps the family from getting on with things... self fulfillment and the like.  One of the other arguments is that it could avoid certain late term abortions.  I get it, birth is actually safer than abortion!  So let's birth the kid before we kill it. 

My co-host Toni Berry and I spoke with Senator Rick Santorum about his son Gabriel who died within hours or a day after birth. His wife has written a book on it, Letters to Gabriel. The Senator was a lead supporter of the partial birth abortion ban. We asked him about arguments that said we should abort children we knew would live short lives and suffer like his Gabriel. The Senator, who lost his re-election bid, asked us why it would matter how long his son lived or what condition he arrived in. He said he loves little Gabriel today and that he learned more from watching Gabriel struggle for his life than he had learned from anybody. He then asked us about his other kids. He had a 9 or 11 year old. What if he should die tomorrow? What if I knew before birth that he would die at 10, 20 or 30? What difference would that make? What difference does the length of anyone's life make? Should we kill them ahead of time?

I think there's a stark spiritual contrast between those who would throw these lives away and the senator who sees every life has precious, no matter how short, how it is delivered or how the package or contents look. That they are thinking that this would prevent some risky abortions (that procedure that is supposed to be safe now that it is legal) is reprehensible. It treats humans as things and obstacles to be overcome. I don't believe for one minute that these people care about the baby. They care about the baby's impact on them and how it will make demands on them and foul the perfect little society they are trying to make.

I'm amazed at the bigotry against these imperfect little people. We used to have lunch counter signs saying, "no coloreds allow." Now we are going to have hospital signs saying, "no burdensome imperfect people allowed." If you can't pass the perfect test (you have one of the 6,000 conditions we can test for), you can't live in our world. But since it's linked to abortion, it's going to be an acceptable bigotry.