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To: tobyhill
I'm going to post various responses to the content of this article but I want to start out by making it clear to anyone who doesn't already know, who the writer is:
Similar to his argument for abortion, Singer argues that newborns similarly lack the essential characteristics of personhood — "rationality, autonomy, and self-consciousness"[28] — and therefore "killing a newborn baby is never equivalent to killing a person, that is, a being who wants to go on living."

---Peter Singer, From Wikipedia

18 posted on 07/19/2009 5:58:12 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: samtheman

“Lack of rationality, autonomy, and self-consciousness”

That sounds like your typical adult liberal.


64 posted on 07/19/2009 6:27:03 AM PDT by NoobRep
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