Infanticide? We’re Not Talking Abortion.

Infanticide - children in test tubes

When the ethicist Peter Singer proposed in 1993 that a newborn cannot be a “person” until 30 days old, it did so only as a rule. This unseemly plan involved granting doctors the power to euthanize disabled infants at the moment – a declaration that horrified people and shocked moral circles. Five years later, Singer had been made the Decamp Professor of Bio-Ethics at Princeton University, which made him credible in the eyes of the academy.