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Comment author: [deleted] 02 January 2012 09:37:14AM *  4 points [-]

What if only surgeons are licensed for infanticide on request, which must be done in privacy away from parent's eyes?

That way desensitisation isn't worse than with surgeons or doctors who preform abortion, especially if aesthetics or poison is used. Before anyone raises the Hippocratic oath as an objection, let me give them a stern look and ask them to consider the context of the debate and figure out on their own why it isn't applicable.

Comment author: drethelin 02 January 2012 07:16:12PM 0 points [-]

I would probably be ok with this, though I don't see particularly strong incentives to put effort in to legalize it.