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Progressive governments, like ours, initiate social welfare programs, but undoubtedly they are only palliatives. For instance, in my country, we have the familiar pre-natal subsidy paid to the pregnant woman. Beginning in the fifth month of pregnancy, she will receive the money from the fifth month after it can be proved that she is really pregnant. The subsidy has a double objective: it is given to the mother in the hope that her own nourishment will be better, and, also, it allows her to buy clothes for the infant...
...other hand, in order to receive this subsidy, which is in addition to the mother's salary, she must have medical supervision, and therefore the subsidy acts as an incentive for her to seek pre-natal care. And in some cases, if the mother is sick, and she is treated soon enough, the child will be born healthy. Moreover, she is given the most elementary instructions about child-care. We have also the family subsidy which is paid from birth until the child finishes school, if he goes to school...
South Africans were stunned by the sudden bloodshed. Students picketed Western Deep's offices in downtown Johannesburg with signs saying LOW WAGES CAUSE REVOLUTION and SAP [South African Police] is TRIGGER HAPPY. The English-language press called for an inquiry, and the Natal Mercury cautioned that South Africans should take the incident as a warning about the increasing tensions and frustrations generated by the years of apartheid. South Africa's implacable Prime Minister, John Vorster, seemed to take a different view; he praised the police for acting with "considerable restraint." Meanwhile, as the Africans mourned their dead, Western...
INFANTICIDE, THEN, represents a more certain method of selective birth control than the combined pre-natal actions, anmiocentesis and abortion. The parents can see their creation and decide whether it is worth keeping. However, this infanticide, an example of euthenasia, is at present deemed criminal homicide, despite the motive of mercy. Most legal experts dispel claims that passivity is not as culpable as a positive act of murder. They contend inaction is tantamount to action when there is a duty to act, and most moralists would agree...
These new techniques--such as computerized pre-natal diagnosis which can present the physician with a rapid picture of the baby's chromosome pattern--would make the positive detection of some 30 to 40 genetic defects very possible. The advantages are obvious. With the increasing availability of abortion as a means for birth control, many people feel that if abortions can be performed on ostensibly normal but unwanted children, they can be performed on deformed children who would presumably be unwanted if the parents had foreknowledge of their defects...