March 2008, Bill Muehlenberg, "Worldviews & Baby Killing | ... All this is not mere theory. Holland is a good case in point where horrible worldviews lead to horrible outcomes:

“After doctors from Groningen University Medical Center in the Netherlands admitted in 2004 that they euthanized dying and profoundly disabled babies under what has come to be called the ‘Groningen Protocol,’ support for infanticide appeared in some of this country’s most prestigious professional journals and newspapers. 

Unsurprisingly, the charge was led by Singer, who defended the Protocol in the Los Angeles Times (‘Pulling Back the Curtain on the Mercy Killing of Newborns,’ March 11, 2005).”

Smith quotes from a number of prestigious medical journals that are now actually suggesting that infanticide should be viewed as a legitimate option. He continues:

“And now in ‘Ending the Life of a Newborn,’ the Hastings Center Report - the most important bioethics journal in the world - has just published another pro Groningen Protocol article, granting even greater support for Dutch infanticide among the bioethics intelligentsia. 

Not only do the authors, a Dutch and an American bioethicist, support lethally injecting dying babies, but also those who are disabled, writing, ‘Critics charge that the protocol does not successfully identify which babies will die. But it is precisely those babies who could continue to live, but whose lives would be wretched in the extreme, who stand in most need of the interventions for which the protocol offers guidance.’

March 2008, Bill Muehlenberg, Culture Watch | Do worldviews matter? You bet they do. Ideas have consequences, and bad ideas have bad consequences. Bad worldviews lead to some very bad outcomes. Take but one example: infanticide. The ancients practiced it with impunity, but Jews and Christians strongly opposed the practice.

So much so that the practice was made illegal in the fourth century. That was because Christian influence had by then thoroughly permeated the Roman Empire. And yet our secularist buddies keep telling us how terrible it is when religion gets mixed with politics. There are millions of people who were spared infanticide who would very much disagree with this secularist nonsense.

So the old adage about bad trees and bad fruit is worth keeping in mind here. Some of the more consistent atheists such as Nietzsche recognised that Christian morality springs from Christian teaching. He knew that if you kill the beliefs, the ethics will soon give way as well. One commentator writing back in 1996 for First Things put it this way:

“In the nineteenth century, Friedrich Nietzsche denounced the Victorians and ‘little moralistic females a la [George] Eliot’ as ‘English flatheads’ for thinking that they could preserve Christian morality without God. Nietzsche was no proponent of a Christian ethics, but he saw clearly that such ethics relies on the publicly held proposition of God’s existence. Neither Jews nor Christians have always lived up to their ethical systems, but the notion of reverence for individual lives is born (in the West at least) solely from a Judeo-Christian impulse.”