Legal Affairs - The Drift Toward Infanticide-And How RU-486 Can Help
by Stuart Taylor, Jr.
National Journal
September 30, 2000
Abortion

The abortion-rights lobby has not yet publicly embraced the view of Peter Singer, a Princeton University bioethicist, that because "the fetus does not have the same claim to life as a person, it appears that the newborn baby does not either." Or that "killing a disabled infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person [and] often it is not wrong at all." Or that "the life of a newborn baby is of less value ... than the life of a pig, a dog, or a chimpanzee." Or that "a period of 28 days after birth might be allowed before an infant is accepted as having the same right to live as others."

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