Newborns no longer considered human??? My God...

This story just stuns me.

According to today's London Telegraph, medical ethicists from Oxford University - in an article published in the Journal of Medical Ethics - have stated that "[p]arents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed because they are “morally irrelevant” and ending their lives is no different to abortion."

I'm not making this up. Really. It goes on to say:

“The moral status of an infant is equivalent to that of a
fetus in the sense that both lack those properties that justify the
attribution of a right to life to an individual.

”Rather than being “actual persons”, newborns were “potential persons”.
They explained: “Both a fetus and a newborn certainly are human
beings and potential persons, but neither is a ‘person’ in the sense
of ‘subject of a moral right to life’.

Did you get that? They consider newborn babies as "potential persons." Instead of calling it what it is - infanticide (murder) - they use the colloquial term, "after-birth abortion." Wow.

"To claim the right to abortion, infanticide and
euthanasia, and to recognize that right in law, means to attribute to human
freedom a perverse and evil significance: that of an absolute power over others
and against others. This is the death of true freedom: "Truly, truly, I say to
you, every one who commits sin is a slave to sin" (Jn 8:34)." - Evangelium Vitae, 20.

The War on Catholicism Continues...

In Sunday's edition of The Star Press, there was an article by George Wolfe regarding "violence", and how the definition should be expanded to include " organizations that restrict the rights of women", which include "religious institutions where women cannot attain the same economic, educational and leadership opportunities available to men." [emphasis added]

Mr. Wolfe's personal expanded definition of "violence" would cover just about every instance where a person gets his/her feelings hurt. By labeling everyone a "victim" it lessens the impact that true violence has on people.

Mr. Wolfe sees victimizers behind every door, especially if they are Christians, or more specifically, Catholics.

As shown in Wolfe's thesis above, women are being victimized daily by the reluctance of the Catholic Church to allow women to become priests and bishops, thus denying them their rightful positions of authority.

You see, it's a power thing for Mr. Wolfe - have's vs. have not's. As all well-informed Catholics know, women cannot be ordained to the priesthood anymore than men can bear children.

Wolfe's worldview explains why so many poor and hungry Americans are slaves to entitlement programs. This is the true violence.

True violence is when children can be aborted and treated as just a "choice". True violence is when Christians are forced to cover birth control costs, contrary to their moral convictions.

Mr. Wolfe should go back to playing his sax.