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n 1996-1997 the newspapers reported two shocking cases of
baby killings. In the first, two 18-year-old college students
brought a child into the world in a hotel room, killed it, and threw the
body into a dumpster. In the other, an 18-year-old girl left her school
prom and gave birth in a bathroom stall, left the dead child in a garbage
can and returned to the dance hall. Both cases resulted in murder
charges.
While most people ascribed these events to moral collapse or
mental disturbance, Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, offered a terrifying explanation:
genetic compulsion. In his article published in the New York Times,
Pinker claimed that killing a baby on the day it was born did not repre-
sent a mental illness because this had been an accepted practice in
many cultures throughout history:
Killing a baby is an immoral act, and we often express our outrage at
the immoral by calling it a sickness. But normal human motives are
not always moral, and neonaticide does not have to be a product of
malfunctioning neural circuitry or a dysfunctional upbringing. 1
The most striking part of Pinker's quotation is the expression "but
normal human motives are not always moral." This reveals an abnor-
mality in his way of looking at things. In other words, even if some be-
havior is immoral, it can still be regarded as legitimate because it is part
of "normal" motives particular to human beings. According to Pinker,
the killing of a newborn baby when circumstances make that necessary
is allegedly "normal" behavior. According to evolutionists' fictitious
claims, mothers under primitive conditions need to make a difficult
choice between caring for their already existing offspring and feeding
newborn ones. Therefore, if a baby is born sick or is unlikely to survive,
then she may prefer to try again by eliminating that individual. This as-
sumption is neither scientific nor true, of course. Nevertheless, a
Darwinist mindset propels Pinker to endorse this savagery.
This claim proposed by Pinker and others like him will do obvi-

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