{"id":63966,"date":"2017-08-03T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63966"},"modified":"2017-08-02T10:24:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T15:24:14","slug":"slip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63966","title":{"rendered":"Slip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LIBERAL: \u00a0&#8220;Why do you conservatives argue about &#8216;slippery slopes&#8217; so much?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CONSERVATIVE: \u00a0&#8220;Because some issues are, indeed, slippery slopes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Parents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed because they are \u201cmorally irrelevant\u201d and ending their lives is no different to abortion, a group of medical ethicists linked to Oxford University has argued<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jme.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2012\/02\/22\/medethics-2011-100411.full.pdf+html\">The article<\/a>, published in the\u00a0<i>Journal of Medical Ethics<\/i>, says newborn babies are not \u201cactual persons\u201d and do not have a \u201cmoral right to life\u201d. The academics also argue that parents should be able to have their baby killed if it turns out to be disabled when it is born.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;re starting to wonder if every American life spent saving Europe from totalitarianism was wasted, I really don&#8217;t have the energy to argue the point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIBERAL: \u00a0&#8220;Why do you conservatives argue about &#8216;slippery slopes&#8217; so much?&#8221; CONSERVATIVE: \u00a0&#8220;Because some issues are, indeed, slippery slopes: Parents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed because they are \u201cmorally irrelevant\u201d and ending their lives is no different to abortion, a group of medical ethicists linked to Oxford University has argued The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-infanticide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63967,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63966\/revisions\/63967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}