As Marta has criticized here, newborns with very severe disabilities are often "allowed to die" in hospitals, with parents and doctors' consent; Peter Singer has developed the bio-ethical philosophy that morally legitimates what has and is already being widely practiced, if you agree with him.
Setting the Singer controversy aside, women, doctors, and nurses are not murdering 1.3 million newborns and children per year in the USA, and those who do murder them are tried and sentenced to prison terms (it has been argued, though, that women who kill newborns are often sentenced to shorter prison terms than those who kill infants, children, or adults). If women, doctors, and nurses murdered 1.3 million babies per year in the USA, surely anyone would consider it to be genocide and advocate taking radical measures in response to it.
In marked contrast, 1.3 million women abort fetuses per year, an estimated 43% of women will have at least one abortion by the time they are 45 years old. If fetuses were babies, surely the number of abortions would amount to genocide by most thinking persons' standards. -- Yoshie
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