Posted on 06/30/2015 4:51:44 PM PDT by Morgana
While pro-life advocates work to remove tax funded abortions, Princeton University bio-ethicist, Peter Singer says he doesn’t want his tax dollars to pay for disabled babies.
In a radio interview in April with WorldNet Daily’s Aaron Klein, Peter Singer argued it is “reasonable” for government or private insurance companies to deny treatment to severely disabled babies.
Singer is both an advocate for abortion as well as infanticide.
On his faculty page, under the heading: The Sanctity of Human Life, Singer openly argues for infanticide:
“Newborn human babies have no sense of their own existence over time. So killing a newborn baby is never equivalent to killing a person, that is, a being who wants to go on living. That doesn’t mean that it is not almost always a terrible thing to do. It is, but that is because most infants are loved and cherished by their parents, and to kill an infant is usually to do a great wrong to its parents.
“Sometimes, perhaps because the baby has a serious disability, parents think it better that their newborn infant should die. Many doctors will accept their wishes, to the extent of not giving the baby life-supporting medical treatment. That will often ensure that the baby dies. My view is different from this, only to the extent that if a decision is taken, by the parents and doctors, that it is better that a baby should die, I believe it should be possible to carry out that decision, not only by withholding or withdrawing life-support – which can lead to the baby dying slowly from dehydration or from an infection – but also by taking active steps to end the baby’s life swiftly and humanely. “
The video below is from Life Dynamics’ monthly pro-life show Life Talk TV. VIDEO ON LINK
According to WND, asked whether he envisions denying treatment to disabled infants to become more common in the U.S. under the new health-care law, Singer replied: “It does happen. Not necessarily because of costs.”
He continued:
If an infant is born with a massive hemorrhage in the brain that means it will be so severely disabled that if the infant lives it will never even be able to recognize its mother, it won’t be able to interact with any other human being, it will just lie there in the bed and you could feed it but that’s all that will happen, doctors will turn off the respirator that is keeping that infant alive.
I don’t know whether they are influenced by reducing costs. Probably they are just influenced by the fact that this will be a terrible burden for the parents to look after, and there will be no quality of life for the child.
So we are already taking steps that quite knowingly and intentionally are ending the lives of severely disabled infants.
And I think we ought to be more open in recognizing that this happens
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Singer later stated, “I don’t want my health insurance premiums to be higher so that infants who can experience zero quality of life can have expensive treatments.”
Not Dead yet petition Peter Singer
Disability Rights groups have called Singer’s views “bigotry” against the disabled and have launched a petition demanding the Princeton University professor resign over his outspoken support for euthanasia and infanticide.
I don’t want tax dollars to pay for misanthrope perfessers.
sick and evil.
this also highlights the problem with tenure.
Will this idiot never die? He has been a rash on the inner thigh of humanity for decades. Will he not go already?
SCOTUS will find a constitutional right to infanticide in the 14th amendment, where all the nifty rights seem to hide, soon enough.
Pete needs to be the first to go. And everyone else who speaks like him. Shut this sh1thole way of thinking down real fast.
Peter Singer’s brain is disabled.
Do what is necessary.
The left wants the old and weak to die, views them as an economic burden on society with no value. What does that tell you?
It has always been at the state level until well into the twentieth century. A state government has a responsibility to protect and provide for those unable to protect and provide for themselves. That includes the mentally retarded and mentally ill as well as the infirmed and disabled. Including babies.
Don’t doze off in the same room with this Singer creep. You might never wake up.
I was hoping someone would notice.
Hasn’t Peter Singer hit Zeke Emmanuel’s age limit? Time to go, Peter.
I’m an advocate for Singercide. This guy is a waste of skin and oxygen.
I agree. That's why I personally support, and have worked at (voluntary, no pay) entities dedicated to that purpose.
It has always been at the state level
And there it should remain, if and ONLY IF the people of the individual States authorize it in their respective State Constitutions. Elsewise, it belongs entirely to the private sector.
And my question remains unanswered. Where the heck is that in the Constitution?
You ALL know the answer: It's NOT THERE. The unconstitutional welfare state, started on "good intentions" is destroying this country. IT MUST END.
his positions are the antithesis of any recognizable ethics or morals
Another proud liberal moment.
SingEr should euthanize himself.
First time I've heard a hint of that from Singer, but then I haven't followed his ethical revelations closely for some time now. His case is that it is wrong because it gives pain to the parents. But I don't think that the premise that the child has no "sense of self over time" or willingness to avoid pain is scientifically defensible; rather the opposite, in fact. Ethical theories that divorced from evidence are little more than juggling of abstractions, fun, I suppose, if you've lost all the counters to your Parcheesi game but of not a great deal more use.
I am relatively certain that if programs where in place to help the truly needy and only those who are truly needy, few would object to them. It is the fact that so many programs exist that are loaded with people who are not disabled or infirmed. They are simply useless people who do little for society. That is the problem. Not the sick. Not the disabled.
As for ending, it won't until it must and that is what Greece is facing now.
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