Joan Beck is the kind of ethicist experimental scientists and fascist dictators dream about. In one sentence in her column of Jan. 11 she conceded that unborn life ”should be held sacred and protected by law and medical ethics.”
Sounds great, like she`s aware of the humanity and rights of the unborn. Otherwise, why love and protect them?
But in the very next sentence she abandons this critical principle.
”When it (unborn life) cannot be sustained . . . because abortion is legally permitted, it is not wrong” to cannibalize the victims. In other words, ”Forget what I just said. The unborn should be protected, but since they aren`t, let`s at least put them to good use.”
Is it necessary to point out how identical this reasoning is to that which prevailed during the Third Reich? ”Like other civilized nations,” the German propagandists might have written, ”we have until now recognized the humanity of Jews and certain other groups. But now der Fuhrer says they are no longer human and can be killed. So, since they`re going to die anyway, why not experiment on them and save some of their parts.”
By calling attention to this similarity, of course, we fall automatically into her contemptuous category of ”the new-holocaust-is-coming alarmists,”
but it`s a risk we`ll have to take. With the total number of unborn babies killed by abortion since 1973 at 24 million, there`s nothing ”new” about today`s holocaust.
