Princeton scholar Peter Singer SLAMMED for promoting euthanasia for babies ... trends now
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.
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.
The controversy comes as Canada's liberal state euthanasia system now sees 10,000 people end their lives each year, and as more US states weigh expanding access to suicide drugs.
'Singer has a eugenic philosophy and his writings are dangerous,' Alex Schadenberg, director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, a campaign group, told DailyMail.com.
Princeton University scholar Peter Singer, the father of the modern animal rights movement, now says euthanasia should be available to sick newborns
Disability rights campaigners say Singer's support for assisted suicides devalues their lives
'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.'
Singer is half-way through a speaking tour of the US, Britain and Australia, promoting his new book Animal Liberation Now — a reboot of his 1975 classic that's inspired generations of people to embrace veganism.
Schadenberg urged people to boycott the tour.
Speaking to Vox, Singer addressed the expansion of factory farming, the growing popularity of animal activism and plant-based diets, and his belief that humans are not a superior to other species.
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He also doubled down on controversial views that the terminally ill, those with limited 'cognitive capacities' or a 'severe intellectual disability that was not treatable' should be allowed to end their lives with a doctor's help.
More contentious still, the bioethicist said parents of a newborn with a 'very severe disability' should be able to ask doctors to give
