It is difficult to pick up a newspaper and not find a new incident recounting the death of a newborn or infant or young child. But all were acts which, beyond the judgments of law or human opinion, did immeasurable harm not only to the babies who lost their lives but also to those who took the lives of those innocent babes.
Christians know that because it's what the Bible teaches.
But even many Christians are not aware of how tenuous the barriers to killing the innocent are today. There are also those who are aware of the attachment of law to the Judeo-Christian biblical history, but overtly oppose those moral standards. Some of those people are prominent academics who repudiate the biblical teaching and call for a new ethical system. No one has been more explicit about the relationship between Christian faith and restraints on killing the innocent than Peter Singer, recently appointed to a permanent chair of bioethics at Princeton University. Singer comes to the logical conclusion of his own world view and recommends that If disabled newborn infants were not regarded as having a right to life until, say, a week or a month after birth it would allow parents, in consultation with their doctors, to choose on the basis of far greater knowledge of the infant's condition than is possible before birth.