On May 10, 2015 police officers responded to a 911 call of a mother throwing her child off a bridge over the Leigh River in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania before jumping off the bridge herself. The scene they arrived at was a grizzly sight, and morbid. The child was taken to a nearby hospital before unfortunately passing away a week later. The mother, one 19-year old Johnesha Perry, was charged with attempted homicide. This is a disgusting waste of life, and is one of many acts of Infanticide all over the globe. The official definition of Infanticide is that it is the crime or act of killing a child within a year of birth. While the case that has just been described, being obviously a horrible crime that should be punished, there is some committing
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Feminists claim that it is their right to control their body. Scientist’s state that since animals are known to induce abortions occasionally that it should be acceptable for humans as the “higher animal”. With these claims to justify the deaths of so many, one can only wonder what next? What is the next step for humanity after this. According to an article published in the science magazine Discovery in 1996, that would be infanticide. The article focused on the 25 year long research of one Dr. Sarah Hardy who witnessed, and studied the practice of infanticide with primates in India. Her observations showed that when a new male would become the leader of a group females it was his practice to kill the infant of the outed leader to allow the females to bear his children. The article then discussed the idea of this animalistic behavior becoming the model for human behavior. Moreover, it discussed the connection of the primates killing the outsted leaders child to biological fathers and step fathers. The author, Dr. Carl Zimmer continues to make parellels from the reasons these animals kill their young to human situations. The reader is left with the chilling realization that Infanticide may not be so far off in the future after all. There is a problem with the animal argument that has been presented in today’s society.
Feminists claim that it is their right to control their body. Scientist’s state that since animals are known to induce abortions occasionally that it should be acceptable for humans as the “higher animal”. With these claims to justify the deaths of so many, one can only wonder what next? What is the next step for humanity after this. According to an article published in the science magazine Discovery in 1996, that would be infanticide. The article focused on the 25 year long research of one Dr. Sarah Hardy who witnessed, and studied the practice of infanticide with primates in India. Her observations showed that when a new male would become the leader of a group females it was his practice to kill the infant of the outed leader to allow the females to bear his children. The article then discussed the idea of this animalistic behavior becoming the model for human behavior. Moreover, it discussed the connection of the primates killing the outsted leaders child to biological fathers and step fathers. The author, Dr. Carl Zimmer continues to make parellels from the reasons these animals kill their young to human situations. The reader is left with the chilling realization that Infanticide may not be so far off in the future after all. There is a problem with the animal argument that has been presented in today’s society.