The following comes from an Oct. 29 story in the College Fix by Mairead McArdle, a student at Thomas Aquinas College.
A trend seen by prolife activists that frequently engage college students on campuses nationwide is the growing acceptance of post-birth abortion, or killing the infant after he or she is born, campus prolife outreach leaders tell The College Fix.
Anecdotal evidence by leaders of prolife groups such as Created Equal and Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust said in interviews that not only do they see more college students willing to say they support post-birth abortion, but some students even suggest children up to 4 or 5-years-old can also be killed, because they are not yet “self aware.”
“We encounter people who think it is morally acceptable to kill babies after birth on a regular basis at almost every campus we visit,” said Mark Harrington, director of Created Equal. “While this viewpoint is still seen as shocking by most people, it is becoming increasingly popular.”
Campuses where the high school, college students, local activists and staff members of Created Equal have encountered this opinion include Purdue, University of Minnesota, and University of Central Florida. And at Ohio State earlier this year, the group captured a debate on video between one of its members and an older woman on campus who defended infanticide.
“This is the whole problem with devaluing human life at any stage—it will naturally grow to include other groups of humans; in this case, born humans as well as preborn humans,” Harrington said. “[I] talked with one young man at the University of Minnesota who thought it was alright to kill children if they were under the age of 5 years old, as he did not consider them persons until that age.”
Kristina Garza, spokeswoman for Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, a prolife organization that often sets up anti-abortion displays on campuses along the West Coast, said her group also frequently encounters college students who accept infanticide.
“For those who are firmly for abortion, because they understand it kills a human being, it’s very easy for them to accept killing a human being after birth,” Garza said. “There is this notion that is common on campus, that it’s OK to kill babies because somehow we don’t become human until we are self aware.”
“A common number that is going around is 4 years old,” she adds….
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The overwhelming devaluation of human life always leads to more violence and a greater cheapening of life that is a political tool.
Would these students admit to advocating the killing of Jewish babies?
Stand up for life folks, plain and simple. Where will the money to take care of the elderly and sick come from? Obamacare? Do you really think euthanasia is out of the question? Hope you didn’t raise your kids to be pro-choice because that training just may get you killed-at their hands.
We can safely presume that Planned Parenthood is one of the major promoters of thinking in this manner. People like Rahm Emmanuel’s brother think it’s best to terminate a life at age 75 because we become useless to society after that. This is why Planned Parenthood just be firmly ejected from school campuses where school authorities are providing planned parenthood access to our children to sexualize them and turn into the modern version of a manchurian candidate. Just mention the word sex and people will kill to maintain freedom to sodomize our children.
There seems to be an increasing divide – bigger than the Grand Canyon -in those ‘educated’ and/or those pursuing ‘education’ and common sense/reality. Whoever has the wherewithal to state that a child doesn’t have self awareness prior to 4-5 years old has obviously NO experience with children whatsoever.