BBC report Says Babies don't feel pain
Biased BBC http://www.biased-bbc.blogspot.com/ nails the pro-abortion style of the BBC.The BBC prefers the term anti-abortion to pro-life, but ALSO pro-choice to pro-abortion!
It publicises a view that is supported by the radical Princeton philosopher Peter Singer [an Australian] that small babies are not truly human until some months after birth because their brains are not developed enough. Both arguments - now a new one that these babies cannot feel pain - posit a category of human being that is disposable at the will of other human beings. Note that the spokesman is merely a 'psychologist':
Here's the transcript (note Humphrys' self-correction of 'baby' to 'foetus', so characteristic of the BBC):
John Humphrys : "Right - so your contention is that the baby - er, the foetus, cannot feel pain until ... ?"
Dr Stuart Derbyshire, psychologist : "Until it's had an opportunity to undergo some sort of learning process - until it's had an opportunity to undergo a process whereby pointing and showing occurs"
Humphrys (interrupting) - "But that would suggest it's weeks - possibly months - after birth - and surely that's nonsense, isn't it ?"
Derbyshire : "It possibly is weeks, possibly months - I mean it's very difficult of course to ever draw a line as to precisely when it happens - but I do think we can draw a line and say that it is vitally dependent upon a process that's going to take place outside of the womb. Pain - in the same way - all experience is in a sense social - it's dependent on other people, and that doesn't occur until the point of birth."
Humphrys : "Dr Derbyshire, many thanks"
Dr Derbyshire was propounding an identical theory in the magazine Living Marxism ten years ago. Why is the BBC suddenly publicising him ?
posted by Barrie @ 4/16/2006 05:45:00 PM
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