Some argue that killing an unborn child or a new-born child does not actually do anyone any harm. Emphases in bold are mine:
If a potential person, like a fetus and a newborn, does not become an actual person, like you and us, then there is neither an actual nor a future person who can be harmed, which means that there is no harm at all. So, if you ask one of us if we would have been harmed, had our parents decided to kill us when we were fetuses or newborns, our answer is ‘no’, because they would have harmed someone who does not exist (the ‘us’ whom you are asking the question), which means no one. And if no one is harmed, then no harm occurred. Giubilini and Minerva, “After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?” in The Journal of Medical Ethics, 2012.
Just for arguments sake, let’s set aside the fact that a child is destroyed.
Someone is still harmed.
Everyone else.
Because children are a reward, not a curse or a commodity:
Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD,
the fruit of the womb a reward.
(Psalm 127:3 ESV)
Wouldn’t it be interesting if archaeologists could somehow find documents from the Canaanite period when they used to sacrifice their kids through the fires to Moloch? Wouldn’t it be something if we could indeed see the Giubilini and Minerva of their day arguing that “no one is harmed” in passing the kids through the fires, and anyways, the crops will be better.
Nothing has changed – 3,000 years and people are the same… almost like the Bible says.
I actually heard a live interview with these people on WHO Radio last week. The host, Simon Conway, was so flabergasted and disgusted he couldn’t even continue to talk with them. Their thinking is SO twisted and as Simon said, he felt like he was face to face with “pure evil”. Sadly, it is what our world is coming to.
I also read the Journals justification for printing the article which basically stating that they don’t publish truth they publish articles that present a good argument. They were shocked that those outside their academic circle were outraged at what this article had to say. UNBELIEVABLE!!