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what motives are used in justifying their actions.
Usually, reasons given include preserving the life of the
mother, the expectation of a defective child, rape, and
incest. Even if these were valid reasons, they would
account for only three percent of all abortions. A full
97 percent of abortions occur for matters of
convenience and economy.
When doctors are willing to counsel the parents of
a newborn child with a congenital defect to allow the
child to starve to death, we should examine this motive
as well. The typical answer is that these youngsters
have a "life not worthy to be lived." Leo Alexander, the
American psychiatric representative to the Nuremberg
trials, in trying to bring the origins of the Holocaust to
the lowest common denominator, said that it all began
with that concept that there was such a thing as
human life not worthy to be lived.
Certainly, we have come to an age where the
Hippocratic tradition of preserving human life means
little. One could say without hesitation that we are at
the crossroads of the corruption of medicine with the
corruption
bf,
law.
Postscript: Angela E. Hunt, author of
The Hidden
Holocaustprojects
this scenario: "Abortion, infanticide,
and euthanasia are ... dominoes in a line; abortion has
fallen, infanticide is tottering, and euthanasia may soon ·
follow."
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