Replying to a message of Roy Witt to All:

 RW> Princeton University employs a prominent crackpot named Peter Singer.

 RW> Singer, the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton's Center
 RW> for Human Values, believes parents should have the right to kill
 RW> newborn babies with birth defects, such as Down syndrome and
 RW> hemophilia, and says there is nothing morally wrong with parents
 RW> conceiving children in order to harvest them for spare parts for an
 RW> older child -- or even for society to breed children on a massive
 RW> scale for spare parts.

It was not uncommon twenty centuries ago in Rome for newborns with obvious
birth defects to be taken by the parents to the city limits and abandoned there.

Centuries before that children that were not 'up to snuff' in Sparta were routinely
either abandoned or killed.

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