Princeton Professor Singer: And I repeat, I would kill Disabled Infants

LifeSiteNews | 9/12/06 | John-Henry Westen

[Zack Nguyen]

I think Professor Singer is doing all pro-life advocates a big favor. He is being completely consistent with his stated pro-choice philosophy. If a baby can be killed while inside his mother, there is really no reason why he can't be killed outside his mother, when the main difference is a change in residence.

The fact that his position is shocking to pro-choicers simply shows that they don't yet have the courage of their convictions just yet. Give them time. Professor Singer might be hailed as a visionary in 20 years by the same secular humanists who profess to be shocked today.

[Casio]

In which case there is no "beginning of life" even in higher level beings. The sperm and the egg, is life the same way the single cell beings are life at the stage of meiosis. This is nonsense and a testament to the poor state of the academy in todays America. Genetics tells us quite clearly that new human life, a diploid organism, is extant after fertilization completes. The twinning argument is supercilious nonsense that goes like this. Because the zygote may split into two distinct human organisms it is OK to kill that human life. IOW's two for the price of one justifies killing human life.

I didn't say that anything justifies killing anybody. I simply stated something which should be obvious, but it isn't: conception is not an absolute final state of one individual human being. The science of genetics is clear, the problem is that college level developmental biology books are rife with ideology stepping all over the science. Your tome is a prime example of that. I think a medical diploma and 27 years of practice of obstetrics and gynecology matches any education you may have received. Unless of course you are also a physician and ob-gyn.

Gabor

[DCPatriot]

Socialism by it's very definition will naturally lead to this.

Oh sure, it may take a few generations, but it's coming, if Communism and Socialism rule the day.

They'll loosen the laws on assisted suicide first. Pure economics becuse there is an eventual limit they can tax the population.

Geesh, I remember there being a 90% tax bracket...how barbaric!

For pro-lifers...this man is a gift to be used as a their new 'poster boy' to the pro choice crowd.

Vote in November straight R!

[jwalsh07]

I simply stated something which should be obvious, but it isn't: conception is not an absolute final state of one individual human being.

Right, it's a beginning state, the beginning of new human life on the contiuum from life to death.

I think a medical diploma and 27 years of practice of obstetrics and gynecology matches any education you may have received. Unless of course you are also a physician and ob-gyn.

Look Doc, bs is bs whether it comes from the hind of a bull or the keyboard of a Doctor. And no I'm not an Ob-Gyn, I'm a blue collar guy that knows bs when he sees it.

[Casio]

Look Doc, bs is bs whether it comes from the hind of a bull or the keyboard of a Doctor. And no I'm not an Ob-Gyn, I'm a blue collar guy that knows bs when he sees it.

So you think so. If you pro-lifers would be so smart, abortion wouldn't be the way of life. Think about THAT!

Gabor

[Casio]

For pro-lifers...this man is a gift to be used as a their new 'poster boy' to the pro choice crowd.

I am an ob-gyn doc who is not doing abortions. Interesting, isn't it? You know, if you common pro-lifers would be so smart, there would be no over million abortions a year. Perhaps if you listened to some smarter people, there could be some other ways. But you don't, you insist on the same mantra which resulted in what it is today. And you declare me the poster boy of pro-choicers, which I am not. Anyway, I don't argue with people who don't even ask questions.

Gabor

[DCPatriot]

Why are you drinking at 5:30 AM??

[vox_freedom]

Isn't Singer getting so old that he really is no longer useful to society and his life should be terminated. After all what use is he anyway?

[vox_freedom]

I am an ob-gyn doc who is not doing abortions. Interesting, isn't it?

Hardly. Sounds perfectly ethical to me...

[Casio]

Why are you drinking at 5:30 AM??

Is that you best question? Well....I don't drink at all. Just because you perhaps do, don't assume the same about everybody else you don't agree with.

Gabor

[Casio]

I am an ob-gyn doc who is not doing abortions. Interesting, isn't it?

Hardly. Sounds perfectly ethical to me...

Well, yes, but one poster wrote this, after disagreeing with something I wrote:
"For pro-lifers...this man is a gift to be used as a their new 'poster boy' to the pro choice crowd."

Gabor