Pedophilia is not the only kind of child abuse. There are people, including physicians, who advocate the right of parents to kill unwanted newborns. The practice was very common in ancient Rome where most citizens had no qualms about exposing babies born with disabilities or some serious illness on some hill, and letting nature take its inevitable course.
The exposure of infants was so much part of that society that the Roman historian, Cornelius Tacitus, was able to describe the Jewish opposition to the practice as "sinister" and "revolting". What's new? Australians against abortion and euthanasia et cetera frequently face similar sentiments in the media when expressing their opposition.
Support for infanticide has already gained respectability among some of the medical fraternities of the Netherlands, the United States, and other western nations. Will Australia follow suit?
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