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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 7, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 6.

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Thou Shalt Not Kill

"Thou Shalt Not Kill."—In a recent debate in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Los Angeles the question discussed was as to the killing of incurably-deformed babies at birth. Strong arguments were made on both sides, but at the close of the debate it was decided by a vote of two to one that it would be better to destroy the infants, and that, notwithstanding the fact that these two arguments were forcibly presented: first, that no one could tell in an infant so young whether it was incurably deformed; and, second, God had given the command "Thou shalt not kill." But what has modern science to do with the Decalogue?