“The standard liberal position needs to be able to point to some such line, because liberals usually hold that it is permissible to kill an embryo or fetus but not a baby. I have argued that the life of a fetus (and even more plainly, of an embryo) is of no greater value than the life of a nonhuman animal at a similar level of rationality, self-awareness, capacity to feel and so on, and that because no fetus is a person, no fetus has the same claim to life as a person. Now we have to face the fact that these arguments apply to the newborn baby as much as to the fetus. A week-old baby is not a rational and self-aware being, and there are many non-human animals whose rationality, self-awareness, capacity to feel and so on, exceed that of a human baby a week or a month old. If, for the reasons I have given, the fetus does not have the same claim to life as a person, it appears that the newborn baby does not either.”
Peter Singer, Princeton University “Bioethicist”
At least he’s consistent.
Excellent post Seowulf
So.... Peter Singer, Princeton University “Bioethicist”
Performing ANY surgery in the uterus for ANY reason, must be pointless since IT is just a unanimated nothing?
This vile puss filled canker sore has no business dwelling on a planet that supports life. This vile creature apparantly harbors and articulates a great disagreement with that.