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[pf] Bioethicist Peter Singer Sees Merit in Killing Disabled
by Tom Wheeler
30 November 2000 20:10 UTC

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Subject: Bioethicist Peter Singer Sees Merit in Killing Disabled

From:  Vera Hassner Sharav,  President
CIRCARE: Citizens for Responsible Care & Research,
              A Human Rights Organization
             Tel. 212-595-8974    FAX: 212-595-9086
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FYI

Bioethicist Peter Singer, who heads Princeton Univeristy's Center for Human
Values, is an example of Neo-Eugenics thinking in prominent bioethics
circles.

Among other things, Singer writes: "The Nazi euthanasia program was not
euthanasia at all."

I guess in bioethics terminology "Human Values" don't apply to people who
are being disposed of...

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Chicage Sun Times

Activist sees merit in killing disabled

November 27, 2000

BY SABRINA WALTERS STAFF REPORTER

Conservative Christians, Jews and advocates for the disabled are among those
who have sought to silence philosopher Peter Singer. But the father of the
animal rights movement hasn't stopped talking--and shocking.

Now, Singer, whose 1980 book Animal Liberation is viewed by many as the
bible of the animal rights movement, is out with a new book. Writings on an
Ethical Life (the ECCO Press, $27.50) compiles some of his most
controversial work in a 384-page book.

Among the ideas Singer puts forth:

* The selective killing of disabled infants could be ethically acceptable,
even desirable.

* Euthanasia is an acceptable practice for the terminally ill or elderly,
especially if their care would drag on society's well-being.

* The life of a chimp or a dolphin has more value than that of a human if
the animal is healthy and the human is severely disabled.

Singer started making enemies in the United States from the moment he
arrived at Princeton University's Center for Human Values from Australia in
1998. His appointment as a bioethics professor sparked loud protests.

That furor cooled, but Singer keeps throwing himself back into the fray, and
his new book seems likely to inflame people again.

He condemns McDonald's for killing animals so people can eat their meat,
tries to explain why his theory on the usefulness of euthanasia differs from
Adolf Hitler's and renews his argument for why parents should have the right
to kill babies born with severe birth defects.

On euthanasia: "The Nazi euthanasia program was not euthanasia at all. It
did not seek to provide a good death for human beings who were leading a
miserable life."

On his belief that animals deserve more to live than severely disabled
people: "There are beings who are sentient and capable of experiencing
pleasure and pain but are not rational and self-conscious and so not
persons."
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