North Korean Infanticide: Disabled Newborns Are Killed
"SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has no people with physical disabilities because they are killed almost as soon as they are born, a physician who defected from the communist state said on Wednesday.This is a very appalling and inhuman story coming out of the totalitarian North Korean state, (disgtinguished member of the elite and exclusive club we call the "Axis of Evil"). However, when you think about some of the acceptable practices like abortion (partial-birth, especially) and some of the tests to determine if birth defects are present, like amniocentisis, that are now routinely done on developing babies in countries like the U.S. and other democracies in the West, is there really a marked difference?
Ri Kwang-chol, who fled to the South last year, told a forum of rights activists that the practice of killing newborns was widespread but denied he himself took part in it.
'There are no people with physical defects in North Korea,' Ri told members of the New Right Union, which groups local activists and North Korean refugees.
He said babies born with physical disabilities were killed in infancy in hospitals or in homes and were quickly buried.
The practice is encouraged by the state, Ri said, as a way of purifying the masses and eliminating people who might be considered 'different.'"
Descriptions of anmiocentisis tell us that the purpose of the test is to determine if a child has serious birth defects like Downs Syndrome. At this typical pregnancy website, we are told that "if the results come back positive for Down's Syndrome or other serious conditions, the couple must decide if they want to end the pregnancy."
Let's call a spade a spade here: Since in both cases, we're talking about the exact same motivations at work and the end results are the same, we must either accept these deplorable actions of North Korea as "good" and "moral" or admit that our abortion practices are nothing short of the same infanticide as they are guilty of. Either way, children die. We're just doing it one step early.
So, enough with the bait and switch tactics used by the abortion industry. Let's tear up our application to the "Axis" club before it's too late.
Labels: David C. Price
posted by DAVID C. PRICE at 3/25/2006 07:35:00 AM
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It's just a matter whether they will be sacraficed at the altar of The State or the self.
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