If we can put aside these emotionally moving but strictly irrelevant aspects of the killing of a baby we can see that the grounds for not killing persons do not apply to newborn infants. (Practical Ethics)
Who is the author of this statement? A Nazi perhaps??
No, actually a Jew, Ben Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov. A son of refugees from Vienna before the war and world renowned professor [and, in theory, murderer].
I wonder what I missed out on by not attending university. On a purely moral level, I believe that I missed out on nothing of value [even though universities have turned into vocational schools but that is besides the point].
A talmid chochom brought a pasuk in Hoshea [13/2] to my attention: זבחי אדם עגלים ישקון - Slaughterers of man, kissers of calves.
This same professor thinks there is nothing morally wrong with a human being having relations with an animal. And how about this zinger: "In fact, an intelligent adult ape has more conscious interests than a newborn human infant. Therefore, faced with the choice of rescuing from a fire either a severely retarded infant, who is unlikely to develop many preferences in the future, and an ape, we should rescue the ape. To think otherwise is simple bigotry, an example of speciesism. We should no more be speciesists than racists or sexists."
All one has to do is reject the concept of tzelem Elokim and all human beings are just over-developed animals. My ninth grade biology teacher enjoyed reminding us that we are all just animals. I should have told him to speak for himself....
A young boy approached his mother and asked "Where do I come from?". His mother answered "From me and daddy." The child didn't relent. "And where do you and daddy come from?" The mother answered "From our parents." "And where do they come from?" "From their parents". "Yes, but where did the first parents come from?" The mother answered "Adam and Eve were created by G-d".
The child was a seeker so he asked his father the same series of questions and received the same answers until he asked him where the first people came from. The father, a tenured Professor at Yale, answered "The first people descended from monkeys".
The child, ever curious, returned to his mother and asked her "Daddy says that the first people came from monkeys but you told me that the first people came from G-d?"
The mother answered "Ahhhhhhh, we are both right. My side of the family came from G-d and your father's side of the family came from monkeys...."
