Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
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| Peter Singer |
Reinl explained why people are concerned about Singer:
Princeton University scholar Peter Singer is under fire for promoting euthanasia for adults and even sick newborns as he touts his new book on a tour of the US, Britain, and Australia.Reinl quoted Alex Schadenberg concerning Singer:
Singer, 76, one of the world's top living philosophers and an animal rights champion, has stoked fury with his recent vocal support for doctor-assisted killings, including for infants born with terminal conditions.
Critics have slammed Singer's comments as 'dangerous eugenics,' accusing the Australian of undermining the terminally ill and disabled by suggesting they are better off dead.
'He justifies that certain lives are unworthy of life, and his philosophy undermines the concept of human equality by justifying the killing of people who lack an undefined level of cognitive capacity.'
More contentious still, the bioethicist said parents of a newborn with a 'very severe disability' should be able to ask doctors to give the child a lethal injection.
'Parents should still have the option of saying: 'We think that it's better that the child should not live,' and doctors should be able to make sure that happens, to give the child a drug so that the child dies without suffering,' Singer said.
His comments have provoked outrage among rights activists, who say legalizing euthanasia devalues the lives of disabled people, and prompts doctors to suggest the procedure to those who might not otherwise consider it.
Calling for lethal injections for sick newborns is even more emotive.
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| Meghan Schrader |
Meghan Schrader, 40, an autistic woman and instructor at the University of Texas at Austin, likened Singer's 'euthanasia program' to state-sanctioned killings of disabled people in Nazi Germany.During the Canadian government committee hearings on Canada's MAiD law, the representative for the Quebec College of Physicians expressed their support for both child euthanasia and the euthanasia of newborns, also known as infanticide.
Schadenberg said promoting euthanasia for newborns is 'dangerous,' as Canadian officials are weighing whether to expand access to assisted dying, as it is known, to include the mentally ill and children.
- Recent article: Philosopher Peter Singer on euthanasia and killing newborns (Link).
2 comments:
Once God is taken out of the scenario, the devil plays havock! Put God back into the country and we'll once again have a sovereign leader. We need the 10 commandments back as a guideline for life.
Who has the right to say whether or not we live? No one but our Creator! Who has the right to say "this one lives" and "that one dies"??? Nobody! Our days on earth are numbered by the Lord. He knows exactly how long we must endure life here on earth until we, as believers, get to spend eternity with Him. Life on earth is but a 'flash in the pan'. Eternity is eternity!
This prof Peter Singer is a secular jew, and his surname means that his male ancestors were likely synagogue cantors). This reminds me very much of dr Morgenthaler. Why is is it that jews lead the pack in killing?
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