The menace of unbridled science

“EVERYONE shall have the right to life, liberty and security of person.” So runs article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a beacon of hope after an era of barbarism.

In 1948, the World Medical Council (WMC) had an ethos enshrined in the Hippocratic Oath which had guided medical practice for the preceding 2,400 years.

The unborn were thus specifically included in the WMC Geneva Medical Convention and likewise in the UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child; while abortionists were still regarded as criminals in most UN member states (excepting the Soviet bloc).