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Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has picked Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota as her running mate. Walz recently legalized infanticide in the state of Minnesota. As someone who does not identify as conservative, I’d be delighted if this claim could be dismissed as a right-wing fever dream. Unfortunately, it is all too real. And by infanticide, I really do mean aiming at the death of newborn infants.
A bit of history. Before Christian ethics became dominant in the West, infanticide was considered (along with abortion) a legitimate way to control reproduction. In ancient Greece and Rome, for instance, the abandonment of newborn infants (usually because they were female or disabled) was even systematized—with certain places designated as baby abandonment spaces. Very often such babies were killed by exposure or wild animals, but sometimes they were picked up by those who raised them as slaves or prostitutes.
The practice was apparently so prevalent that one reason ancient Christians warned against visiting prostitutes was because there was a decent chance the woman could be a family member. These ancient Christians not only adopted many of these exposed infants and raised them as their own, but the earliest Catechism we have, theDidache, responds to the signs of those times by insisting that Christians must not “murder a child by abortion nor kill them when born.”
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A bit of history. Before Christian ethics became dominant in the West, infanticide was considered (along with abortion) a legitimate way to control reproduction. In ancient Greece and Rome, for instance, the abandonment of newborn infants (usually because they were female or disabled) was even systematized—with certain places designated as baby abandonment spaces. Very often such babies were killed by exposure or wild animals, but sometimes they were picked up by those who raised them as slaves or prostitutes.
The practice was apparently so prevalent that one reason ancient Christians warned against visiting prostitutes was because there was a decent chance the woman could be a family member. These ancient Christians not only adopted many of these exposed infants and raised them as their own, but the earliest Catechism we have, theDidache, responds to the signs of those times by insisting that Christians must not “murder a child by abortion nor kill them when born.”
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VP Nominee Tim Walz Supports the Right to Infanticide - First Things
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has picked Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota as her running mate. Walz recently legalized infanticide in the state of Minnesota. As someone who does...
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