The “Architect of the Culture of Death“, Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer, is all of a sudden concerned with life. Well, a life, anyway, that of Jill Carroll, the Christian Science Monitor freelancer kidnapped in Iraq:
Which of us would not seek to meet the kidnappers’ demands if Carroll
were our daughter? If one of President Bush’s daughters were in a
similar situation, do we believe he would not be thinking about whether
to meet the demands? Indeed, wouldn’t we think worse of him as a human
being if he did not?
Too bad his concern doesn’t extend to other human beings:
If the fetus does not have the same claim to life as a
person, it appears that the newborn baby does not either, and the life
of a newborn baby is of less value to it than the life of a pig, a dog,
or a chimpanzee is to the nonhuman animal.
