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SPEAKING OF FRANCE

France's highest court recently ruled that children with Down's Syndrome have a legal "right" never to have been born and may sue doctors who "allowed them to be born." In other words a doctor who does not kill a "defective" infant is liable for 100% of his or her care.

France, like the rest of the European Union, is opposed to the death penalty. They are so adamantly against the death penalty that they have in the past refused to extradite confessed kidnappers, murderers and child rapists to the United States because they could receive the death penalty here. Killing a newborn, however, does not seem to be a problem in France.

France does not have a Christian soul or a Christian nature. It is as pure a secular nation as one can find in the world today. Purely secular people have no firm basis for belief in right and wrong. What is right is what the society believes is "right" at a given moment. There is no greater truth than public opinion, and one result is the current belief that newborns have the "right" to be murdered if they are "defective".

I was born at the end of World War II and thus my early education was filled with war time stories. We were taught over and over again that America had fought the Nazis because they were inhuman. We were taught about how the Nazis experimented on human life and even manipulated life to create a "super human" race and how wrong that was. One of the great sins of the Nazis, we were told as youths, is that they would kill those they deemed "defective". Our fathers and grandfathers fought and died in the fields of France so that nation would not have such evils forced upon it. Today the French engage in these evils of their own volition, not because of the Nazis.