We Kill Perfect Babies

A society that baulks fussily at the death penalty for guilty murderers has become adept at excusing the convenient killing of innocents.
Using the advanced techniques of a perverted science, we hunt down imperfect babies in the womb and kill them.
Or we kill perfect babies because their birth might disrupt our comfy lives.
And we tell ourselves that it is all right because our victims aren’t fully human, though in our hearts we know they are.
When the law which permits this massacre was first proposed nearly 50 years ago, we were told that it would be for exceptional and very difficult cases only.
I do not know if those who campaigned for the change really believed that – but their opponents warned that it would lead to abortion on demand.
And that is what happened.
(Peter Hitchens)