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This is from the blog of Judie Brown from the American Life League. Very troubling.
http://www.all.org/newsroom_judieblog_response.php?id=2387
THE EVIL GARDENER OR THE BIOETHICS GURU?
*Bioedge *is giving all of us something to think about that, frankly, has nothing to do with elections, politics or voting. Aside from being alarming for those of us who respect the ethical framework within which all scientific research should be pursued, the report you are about to read is acutely painful to contemplate but not very hard to believe.
In a short comment, *Bioedge *relates the following:
Want a peek into the future of American bioethics? It could be Peter Singer. The American Society of Bioethics and Humanities has selected the controversial philosopher as a keynote speaker for a national undergraduate bioethics conference in March 2009. The conference will be held at Harvard University and will be sponsored by the Harvard Undergraduate Bioethics Society and a number of other Harvard groups. It is a two-day event, which will draw about 200 students from around the country. That Singer is to be welcomed at Harvard, home of some of the most talented students in the US, when appearances in Europe provoke protests over his views on infanticide, abortion and euthanasia could mean that American bioethics will tilt even further towards utilitarianism. Time will tell.
Peter Singer’s ‘global ethics’ (read, BIOethics) is notoriously controversial, and for good reason. Among other outrageous ‘ethical conclusions’ he has taught for decades now is that the infanticide of newborn human infants is ‘ethically acceptable’ because they are not ‘persons,’ whereas the killing of certain animals who are ‘persons’ is not
http://www.all.org/newsroom_judieblog_response.php?id=2387
THE EVIL GARDENER OR THE BIOETHICS GURU?
*Bioedge *is giving all of us something to think about that, frankly, has nothing to do with elections, politics or voting. Aside from being alarming for those of us who respect the ethical framework within which all scientific research should be pursued, the report you are about to read is acutely painful to contemplate but not very hard to believe.
In a short comment, *Bioedge *relates the following:
Want a peek into the future of American bioethics? It could be Peter Singer. The American Society of Bioethics and Humanities has selected the controversial philosopher as a keynote speaker for a national undergraduate bioethics conference in March 2009. The conference will be held at Harvard University and will be sponsored by the Harvard Undergraduate Bioethics Society and a number of other Harvard groups. It is a two-day event, which will draw about 200 students from around the country. That Singer is to be welcomed at Harvard, home of some of the most talented students in the US, when appearances in Europe provoke protests over his views on infanticide, abortion and euthanasia could mean that American bioethics will tilt even further towards utilitarianism. Time will tell.
Peter Singer’s ‘global ethics’ (read, BIOethics) is notoriously controversial, and for good reason. Among other outrageous ‘ethical conclusions’ he has taught for decades now is that the infanticide of newborn human infants is ‘ethically acceptable’ because they are not ‘persons,’ whereas the killing of certain animals who are ‘persons’ is not