Babies with no soul buried alive

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 Babies with no soul?

Babies are being buried alive in Brazil, claiming the lives of dozens each year.

Children born into some Indian tribal families are being killed in shallow graves in the Amazon rainforest. Girls, babies with disability or who have unmarried mothers are all in danger, campaigners say. Like other peoples, the Suruwah� consider that a child with any deformity or disability does not have a soul and so - like animals - should be killed.

Some anthropologists, such as Dr Erwin Frank, say people should respect cultures that allow this. [Telegraph, 22 June]  [(c) Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, 2007
www.spuc.org.uk ]


SPUC shows the horror of burying babies alive because they do not meet the specifications of their society.  This lack of civilization could be compared or contrasted to the current U.S. legal system, in which a child does not necessarily even get to prove whether or not he or she meets specifications.  In our civilization a child can be dispatched before birth, not because he is unqualified, but just because his existence is inconvenient.  The Suruwah� tribe would probably consider this terribly uncivilized.

Do we need to respect a culture that would allow this?

RARTL Updated July, 2007


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