{"id":31241,"date":"2017-07-21T06:14:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T10:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31241"},"modified":"2017-07-21T06:14:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T10:14:42","slug":"scary-things-our-children-are-being-taught-in-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31241","title":{"rendered":"Scary Things Our Children Are Being Taught In College"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, National Review<\/a> posted an article about Professor Jerry Coyne, a professor in the department of ecology and human evolution<\/a> at the University of Chicago<\/a>. Professor Coyne writes a blog called “Why Evolution Is True<\/a>.” I don’t have a problem with his belief in evolution as long as he also explains that it is a theory and that there are other theories. However, I am concerned about a recent post on his blog.<\/p>\n

Professor Coyne writes:<\/p>\n

If you are allowed to abort a fetus that has a severe genetic defect, microcephaly, spina bifida, or so on, then why aren\u2019t you able to euthanize that same fetus just after it\u2019s born?<\/strong><\/p>\n

…After all, newborn babies aren\u2019t aware of death, aren\u2019t nearly as sentient as an older child or adult, and have no rational faculties to make judgments (and if there\u2019s severe mental disability, would never develop such faculties). It makes little sense to keep alive a suffering child who is doomed to die or suffer life in a vegetative or horribly painful state.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor Coyne states:<\/p>\n

As for the \u201cslippery slope\u201d argument \u2014 that this will lead to Nazi-like eugenics \u2014 well, this hasn\u2019t come to pass in places where assisted suicide or euthanasia of adults is legal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article at National Review reminds us that what Professor Coyne states about the “slippery slope” is not entirely true:<\/p>\n

Superficially, he is correct, but it is silly to think that abuses will occur only in such an explicit manner. \u201cThe violence we commit,\u201d writes Hart, \u201cis more hygienic, subtler, and less inconvenient than that committed by our forebears.\u201d Indeed, Wesley J. Smith has highlighted how an increasing number of mentally ill patients are euthanized in countries where it is legal. As he noted at NRO, these patients tend to be \u201cthe prime candidates for conjoining euthanasia with organ harvesting.\u201d Sometimes, however, fatal malpractice is more explicit: In 2015, hundreds were euthanized in the Netherlands without request.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor Coyne is teaching the leaders of tomorrow. Hopefully they will acquire some moral clarity on the idea of killing children before they become leaders. It is scary to think of a world where we think we have the right to arbitrarily kill children or adults because we deem them defective.<\/p>\n

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