Peter Singer endorses infanticide
Stephen Colbert's guest on Thursday, March 12, was Peter Singer, a bioethicist at Princeton University.
Singer recommends making fourth-trimester abortions legal:
"There remains, however, the problem of the lack of any clear boundary between the newborn infant, who is clearly not a person in the ethically relevant sense, and the young child, who is. In our book, Should the Baby Live?, my colleague Helga Kuhse and I suggested that a period of twenty-eight days after birth might be allowed before an infant is accepted as having the same right to life as others." (Peter Singer, Rethinking Life and Death, 217)
I'm not too surprised that an ethicist would be extremely immoral -- after all, the University of Waterloo's ethics professor was Jan Narveson. Singer and Narveson simply take their atheist beliefs to their logical conclusions. (Well, it isn't strictly logical. ... In fact, I attended a debate in which Narveson argued for abortion. He was unashamed of his anti-science, anti-reason views: "I don't care what science says!")
Singer recommends making fourth-trimester abortions legal:
"There remains, however, the problem of the lack of any clear boundary between the newborn infant, who is clearly not a person in the ethically relevant sense, and the young child, who is. In our book, Should the Baby Live?, my colleague Helga Kuhse and I suggested that a period of twenty-eight days after birth might be allowed before an infant is accepted as having the same right to life as others." (Peter Singer, Rethinking Life and Death, 217)
I'm not too surprised that an ethicist would be extremely immoral -- after all, the University of Waterloo's ethics professor was Jan Narveson. Singer and Narveson simply take their atheist beliefs to their logical conclusions. (Well, it isn't strictly logical. ... In fact, I attended a debate in which Narveson argued for abortion. He was unashamed of his anti-science, anti-reason views: "I don't care what science says!")