Posted on 09/14/2006 4:31:48 AM PDT by drpix
'Animal-rights' promoter asserts actual birth makes no difference
An internationally known Princeton "bioethicist" and animal-rights activist says he'd kill disabled babies if it were in the "best interests" of the family, because he sees no distinction in the child's life whether it is born or not, and the world already allows abortion.
The comments come from Peter Singer, a controversial bioethics professor, who responded to a series of questions in the UK Independent this week.
Earlier, WND reported that Singer believes the next few decades will see a massive upheaval in the concept of life and rights, with only "a rump of hard-core, know-nothing religious fundamentalists" still protecting life as sacrosanct
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
'...Singer said that the court-ordered circumstances that killed Terry Schiavo, a disabled Florida woman, in 2005 may be the turning point at which holding the position of the sanctity of life became "untenable."'
How about killing off a race of people if they just aren't quite making it competitively.
Slippin and sliding down that slope....
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No doubt in my mind that he wouldn't consider it quite right if we killed the terrorists we have at Gitmo.
Very, very Swiftonian! Why stop there prof, when your kid comes home with that first report card that's the time to make that decision for the best interests of the family.
What a putz.
Oh, wait a minute... he thinks they're both okay. Nevermind.
Don't get me wrong. Peter Singer is up there on my list of candidates for post partum abortion.
I love conspiracy theories. Did The Independent run this Q&A article now because it is particularly relevant today? Or was this resurrected because it will be publicized by WND and enrage, engage, energize the conservative American base who will then turn out to re-elect a wishy-washy Republican majority in the US Congress.
I can see why they, (whoever THEY are), want Tony Blair to step down. He is much too influential in American politics. I am beginning to see it.
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Are you saying this interview is an old one? Since WND's source article in The Independent seems to be subscriber only, I can't tell.
Close to 18 years ago I checked out 3 or 4 books from the University of Maine library on bioethics. All of them viewed abortion as normal from a species point of view, and a couple of them saw nothing wrong with killing infants who were not yet totally "sentient".
Nothing new here.
Dean Koontz wrote an excellent book about Bioethicists called "One Door Away From Heaven". Dean Koontz is a pretty conservative writer and has actually donated to the Bush campaign in the past. I love all his books.
Jeeeez.
He's one of my favorites too--glad to hear he's a conservative. This idiot professor (there seem to be many) must be nazi oriented. Thank God he has no power.
Isn't it amazing to watch the "Progressive Left" continue to take their talking points from the Nazis? Murdering the disabled, anti-Semitism, fascination with Islam and paganism, gun control, the list goes on and on.
Singer holds this position because he wrongly believes that an individual's "personhood" does not depend on his biological existence as a human being but, rather, on his having a certain level of mental functioning. Of course, if one accepts Singer's premise, then there is no objective way of determining who is and who is not a person. Furthermore, Singer's premise is both unproven and fallacious. It makes no sense to make "persons" and "human beings" separate categories. But that is what Singer does, which allows him to come up with the ridiculous conclusion that an unborn baby or a person in a coma is not a person but dogs and pigs are.
You beat me to it, I see no difference either , only I call it murder.
What a sad day when "best interests" are valued over human life.
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