[I]it is never licit to kill another: even if he should wish it, indeed if he request it, hanging between life and death. nor is it licit even when a sick person is no longer able to live - Augustine
No newborn infant should be declared human until it has passed certain tests regarding its genetic endowment and that if it fails these tests, it forfeits the right to live.-- Francis Crick, 1978
I confirm that euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.- Evangelium Vitae- Gospel of Life- Pope John Paul II - 1995
The most merciful thing a large family can do for one of its infant members is to kill it.-- Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race, Truth Publishing, 1920
Species membership in Homo-sapiens is not morally relevant. If we compare a dog or a pig to a severely defective infant, we often find the non human to have superior capacities.-- Peter Singer
Killing a disabled infant is not morally equivalent ot killing a person. Very often it is not wrong at all. -- Peter Singer _Practical Ethics_
Since it is virtually certain that an infant at such a stage of its development does not possess the concept of a continuing self, and thus does not possess a serious right to life, there is excellent reason to believe that infanticide is morally permissible in most cases where it is otherwise desirable.
Michael Tooley, Ethics for Modern Life, St. Martin's Press, 1987
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