Australian-born philosopher Peter Singer wrote in his 1985 book Should the Baby Live? The Problem of Handicapped Infants, that parents should have the right to kill a baby that's born disabled — and not just have the right to do it, but in some instances that disabled babies literally should be killed. Yes, he was talking about killing babies after they were born. And he even wrote that parents should have the right to kill a child within 28 days of birth.
The two scientists behind the lawsuit that has temporarily blocked federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research said Wednesday they were motivated by ethical objections to destroying human embryos for medical research. 
The dumping of a dead newborn girl in a shoe box in
The baby girl dumped in the garden of a Strathfield unit block still had its umbilical cord when a gardener discovered her body about 8 am.
Saturday, 17 Jul 2010
Read more...| Face off with world renowned Peter Singer |
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In 2005, Time magazine named Peter Singer one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He specialises in applied ethics, approaching ethical issues from a secular perspective. But after showing up on ABC Television’s Q&A, maybe he might have wished he hadn’t.  While he confirm that he still maintained his view, also he glossed over the question of euthanising physically or mentally disabled babies, and instead focused on the natural death of such babies (which is not euthanasia) as normal. At the end of the Q&A program, Peter Singer was confronted with the question posed to him: “in your 2001 article ‘Heavy Petting’ you state that mutually satisfying sexual activities between humans and animals can develop. Please explain?” Again, he saw no wrong with humans and animals to enjoy sex together. More interestingly, he specifically chose the example of a human woman giving oral sex to her pet male dog as an example that that was not wrong. Interestingly, he walked into the studio with applause like a rockstar, but left the studio possinly a little less human in the eyes of the studio audience as well as the Australian television audience. Watch this very interesting episode via the link below. And you can also follow the on-line discussion thread via the other link below as well. Tonight’s ABC Television’s Q&A program featured Peter Singer, David Marr (journalist and commentator), Peter Garrett (Federal Minister for Environment Protection, Heritage and the Arts), Helen Coonan (Liberal Senator and former communications minister) and Jayashri Kulkarni (Head of Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre). |
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