Bioethicists have opened a new front with "after-birth abortion"
Atheists resent the Christian allegation that unless you believe in God, anything goes. Yet atheists keep corroborating the allegation.
John Warwick Montgomery wrote a book entitled The Law Above the Law. But in atheism, there is no higher law to protect you. There is only whatever is currently lawful or unlawful. And that can change on a dime. There is no moral law behind statutory law. Nothing to back it up, or constrain it. We're reduced to social contract theory, where humans only have whatever immunities the law happens to stipulate.
Josef Mengele is numbered among the moral monsters of human history because he experimented on concentration camp prisoners. Traditionally, the reason we experiment on animals rather than humans is both because we consider it unethical to experiment on humans without their consent, and even if they did consent, it would still be unethical to perform certain experiments on humans.
But if a human being is simply structured protoplasm, just a collection of cells, then what's wrong with experimenting on humans with or without their consent? It comes down to who has more power.
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