Infanticide for the handicapped newborn--a secular rejection.

Infanticide for the handicapped newborn--a secular rejection.

Correspondence Infanticide for the handicapped newborn-a secular rejection SIR Thomas Long's article on Infanticide for the Handicapped Newborn seemed to assume that Ramsey's religious stance is the only valid opposition to Kuhse and Singer's utilitarianism. I do not think this is true; from a secular humanitarian point of view killing is also wrong. Kuhse and Singer's definition of a 'person' ...

Infanticide and the Handicapped Newborn

Infanticide and the Handicapped Newborn contributes yet more timber to the blazing debate over decision making in the neonatal intensive care unit. Controversy still rages over Baby Doe, a boy born in April 1982, with Down's syndrome and a tracheo-esophageal fistula. His parents refused to allow intravenous feeding and corrective surgery. The baby died at six days of age, survived by such troub...

Infanticide for handicapped infants: sometimes it's a metaphysical dispute.

Since 1973 the practice of infanticide for some severely handicapped newborns has been receiving more open discussion and defence in the literature on medical ethics. A recent and important argument for the permissibility of infanticide relies crucially on a particular concept of personhood that excludes the theological. This paper attempts to show that the dispute between the proponents of inf...

The plight of the genetically handicapped newborn: a comparative analysis.

Reclaiming the Secular: Developing Dialogic Skills for a Post-Secular Society

This research paper addresses secularization from both political and religious perspectives. One of its manifestations in the political sphere is that of globalization that can lead to alienation within society; and in the United Kingdom this is exemplified by Brexit. Within the religious sphere secularization is usually couched in oppositional terms. This paper reclaims the original use ...