by independent specialists and each instance is recorded and submitted to the relevant regulatory authority and to the office of the jurisdiction's prosecutor. Viognier By the same logic put forth in the article (which I downloaded and read), the mentally retards could be killed post-natally. And anyone else we deem to confer the status of non-personhood, likewise, is a candidate for termination. Later, this will expand to include the ugly (as the article suggests in the discussion of TCS), the bullied by society, those afflicted with pediatric cancer, those on welfare, drug addicts, homosexuals and anyone we deem a pathology. Perhaps the Nazis was simply "misunderstood" and just ahead of their time -- who knew? Viognier I would like to see the authors and editors of these theories put them into practice. It's all fun and games up there in the ivory tower.  But now hold a newborn in your hands and end its life with your own vicious hands. Stop the squirming and beating of blood, then see if you can still sleep at night. Not so: G&M are fairly clear that it's personhood that does the work here, and that term is generally understood to have a particular meaning in the literature: whatever vagueness there might be about its meaning at the margin, it certainly isn't open to the kind of arbitrary application that worries you here. Your slippery-slope argument doesn't really apply. KP Let's call after birth abortion what it really is-murder Let's call this "philosophical discussion"