Tag: newborns
At What Point In Its Development Can a Human Being Feel Pain?
Peter Singer has argued that animals, like humans, deserve protection because of their ability to suffer.
Scientific “Decadence” and the Myth of Objectivity
Scientists aren’t like “everyone else”: because of the prestige they enjoy, the impact of their being “uncritical of things that [they] want to believe” is tremendous. It can be quite corrosive, quite malign.
Darkness Rising: As It Turns Out, Not All Newborns Have a Right to Life
The culture of death — the dehumanization of the vulnerable and the unwanted — is fast upon us.
Evolutionary Biologist Now Wants Doctors to Kill Suicidal Depressed People
This is not a slippery slope. This is an ice cliff.
Why Does This Evolutionary Biologist Want to Euthanize Handicapped Babies?
Jerry Coyne argues, astonishingly, that the vulnerability of handicapped children justifies killing them.