Peter Singer
Posted on 09/13/2006 8:06:03 PM PDT by Bill_o'Rights
Princeton University philosophy professor Peter Singer came under international condemnation when he announced he favors killing disabled babies via infanticide. Though he was blasted from both sides of the political spectrum, the so-called ethicist still holds to the position.
In an interview with The Independent newspaper in England, Singer said he would definitely kill a disabled newborn baby.
He indicated he would do so "if that was in the best interests of the baby and of the family as a whole."
Singer said he found it surprising that abortion advocates would disagree with his views.
"Many people find this shocking, yet they support a woman's right to have an abortion," Singer said.
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However, Singer's view is that, instead of legal protection, both disabled babies and the unborn deserve death.
As he wrote in Rethinking Life and Death, "Human babies are not born self-aware or capable of grasping their lives over time. They are not persons. Hence their lives would seem to be no more worthy of protection that the life of a fetus."
(Excerpt) Read more at lifenews.com ...
don't worry, they'll make more
"One point on which I agree with opponents of abortion is that, from the point of view of ethics rather than the law, there is no sharp distinction between the fetus and the newborn baby," Singer explained. However, Singer's view is that, instead of legal protection, both disabled babies and the unborn deserve death."
This is just mind-boggling.
Sure, it's all about "academic freedom". Of course, this guy would've been fired faster than you could say Jack Robinson if he'd advocated low taxes and concealed gun carry.
I didn't know this. Well, there are exceptions to every rule for liberals.
Peter Singer is a sick individual!
Somehow Pete will determine whose life has value to society
and whose doesnt he is in fine company with fellows like
A. Hitler, Mao, Saddam H.
No longer do I just disagree with the left I consider them
a dangerous cult waiting to rise to power and set up their
own version of death camps, most likely allied with the Islamo-nazis.
Well, technically, if there were a previous child, it'd still be a family, (and I like to think of a married couple as a family), but it wouldn't be a "family as a whole" as Singer terms it, instead it'd be a "family with a part brutally murdered."
Peter Singer is cold and distant, I would suspect Satan has him in his icy grip. I hope one day God will show him the way.
That's the secret that some libs don't want out, you see certain race demographics have more abortions than others. As we all know, the left is not blind to race as the claim, it's quite the opposite.
He indicated he would do so "if that was in the best interests of the baby and of the family as a whole."
OK what makes someone think that they know the answer to this. Not even the parents can always know what the worth of the child may be at the moment they try to make such a decision. This (The death of the child) may be later found to be the wrong decision if the child is allowed to live and grow. You would have to be pretty arrogant to believe you can know the answer to such a question.
What a cold heartless ba$tard.
this guy teaches at a "prestigious" university-i think he's involved in animal rights,although maybe it's just another person with the same name-maybe we should consider aborting useless professors....hmmm??
It's not so much that there are exceptions. It's a matter of this guy being nothing more than a doofus in academia who claims to be an expert in his ivory tower but only because he never actually has to go out an apply his ethical agenda in the real world.
Why not just kill all the liberal adults too while we're at it? It's the same thing.
..he would definitely kill a disabled newborn baby.
OK. Would disabled include a mouth like yours perfesser?
Maybe similar eyes?
Goodnight perfesser.
Peter Singer
Tell that to their liberal parents that see no problem with aborting them.
Conservative families are busy creating more voters.
Now yer talkin! How would we do it? Poison their foie gras and caviar? Even better, maybe we should force sterlize all registered democrats?????? /s
If Pete's parents had realized his brain was so disabled, they might have killed him as a baby.
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