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Denounce Lethal Anti-Disability Healthcare Policy Advocated by Peter Singer (Change.org)

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…the petition directly to sign your name on: Princeton University Professor Peter Singer has a long history of advocating for the legitimization of bigotry in public and healthcare policy arenas. Since about 1980, Singer has promoted public policy that would legalize the killing of disabled infants. At that time, his “claims to fame” were basically twofold: 1) his work on “animal liberation,” which, among other things, defined “personhood” in a way…

Peter Singer – A Slippery Mind

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…with his own mother. In 1999, Michael Specter wrote in the New Yorker that Peter Singer spent money to support his mother, who had advanced Alzheimer’s – and the apparent contradiction of him providing that care in the face of Singer’s views on personhood. Singer’s comments, which became widely circulated in subsequent coverage of him, explained the contradiction this way: Singer has spent his career trying to lay down rules for human behavior whi…

NDY Press Release: Disability Activists Urge Princeton University to Denounce Professor Peter Singer’s Comments, Call for His Resignation

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…healthcare and for the specific content of the article. “This was probably Peter Singer’s most direct assault on the value of the lives of people with physical disabilities past the age of infancy,” said Drake. On April 26, 2015 on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio,” Singer again rationalized the killing of disabled infants. Three days later, the National Council on Disability, a council appointed by the U.S. President to provide advice on disabili…

Australia: ABC ‘Ramp-Up’ Editor Writes “The Case Against Peter Singer”

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…d people as counters to Singer. Here is the beginning of “The Case Against Peter Singer“: The appearance of Peter Singer on Q&A this week has rattled me in a way only the good philosopher can. Singer, who is arguably better known for his views on animal rights, has views about disability that have been discussed far less here in Australia than they have in the US where he lives and works. I am open about not being a fan of Singer’s work, a stateme…

Peter Singer in NY Times Magazine: Disability Community Responds!

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…of its 19th anniversary? The New York Times Magazine’s decision to publish Peter Singer’s latest long essay entitled ‘Why We Must Ration Health Care’ (7/15/09) less than two weeks before the anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act demonstrates either deliberate malice or reckless disregard of the reality of disability as an important demographic representative of nearly 20% of the American population. As anyone who has re…