04 Apr 09 05:24, Bob Ackley wrote to Roy Witt:

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

 RW>> Singer, the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton's
 RW>> Center for Human Values, believes parents should have the right to
 RW>> kill 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.

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

This isn't centuries ago Rome. We're now in an age where those lives are
as precious as any other.

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

See above.

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