Neonatal ethics and the Catholic Church
Interesting to see a Catholic scholar’s take on a recent issue of a pediatric journal which discussed the ethics of caring for seventy disabled newborns. I contributed an essay, and the Catholic blogger somehow concluded that most of the contributors were atheists or agnostics.
Here is the link to the post.
February 15th, 2012 at 9:26 pm
Interesting post. See
http://bgladd.blogspot.com/2008/04/diploid-dave-et-al.html
and related partial cross post,
http://open.salon.com/blog/bobbyg/2009/06/24/richard_nixon_wanted_my_daughter_aborted
High minded moral abstraction buttressed by a few cherry-picked heart-tug anecdotes nonetheless gloss over a ton of difficulty. See in particular my quote citing Simon Blackburn from “Begin Good.”