Compassionate infanticide
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Communities are gradually accepting that abnormal children doomed to an intolerable life should be allowed to die, according to the Nobel Prize-winning Australian scientist, Sir MacFarlane Burnet.
“Compassionate infanticide :n the form of abortion is (already acceptable in ex(ceptional cases, and I do not [think that present attitudes J will last indefinitely,” Sir MacFarlane told a New I South Wales University con- ‘ ference on the value of (human life. “I can foresee that if . I scientifically-directed action, based on overriding loyalty Ito the future of our planet (and our species, should [develop and persist, then • iover the next 100,000 or I million years the cut-off ' point for such action will (move steadily outward.”
Sir MacFarlane, who won ithe Nobel Prize in 1960, said 'that there were many instances where, in the interests of the child, the parents, and the species, the logical action was compassionate infanticide.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34130, 17 April 1976, Page 22
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