At least Singer is honest. He states the obvious that life begins at conception, but so what? His position is that personhood should not be granted until the infant is 30 days old.
Some day, the Jesuits may get it together. But not yet...
Pro-Infanticide Peter Singer Lectures at Georgetown
“It would seem that Dr. Singer, far from being invited to a Catholic campus should be escorted off one,” Archbold added. “But the Georgetown Lecture Fund invited Singer to speak this past weekend to speak on ethical issues of using robots in war, according to their website.”
Here are some of his past comments, with links to the sources:
Singer once wrote, “Human babies are not born self-aware, or capable of grasping that they exist over time. They are not persons.”
He wrote that “the life of a newborn is of less value than the life of a pig, a dog, or a chimpanzee.”
Singer wrote that he’d like to see certain restrictions on infanticide only because people might feel bad about it. “We should certainly put very strict conditions on permissible infanticide, but these conditions might owe more to the effects of infanticide on others than to the intrinsic wrongness of killing an infant.”
Peter Singer wrote of the benefit of killing an infant with hemophilia:
“When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed. The loss of the happy life for the first infant is outweighed by the gain of a happier life for the second. Therefore, if killing the hemophiliac infant has no adverse effect on others, it would, according to the total view, be right to kill him.”
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