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03-27-2009, 05:04 PM | #1 | |
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Peter Singer on abortion
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Singer is probably most famous for his animal rights work. Currently he is promoting a book on helping the poor in the world. I heard him on NPR. He believes we have a moral/ethical obligation to help the poor people in the world, if we are rich. |
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03-27-2009, 05:37 PM | #2 |
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That sounds like a distinction without a difference. Somehow the fetus's "preferences" are worth less because they are less human somehow. Having said that, the argument makes a lot of sense from the common Mormon perspective: that abortion is okay in certain cases (i.e. we agree that the innocent life is worth less because of the circumstances affecting the mother).
I don't see how the spectrum argument can be avoided. Abortion is but one (and typically last) stop to get off the train ride to full personhood. |
03-27-2009, 05:44 PM | #3 |
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Uh-oh, now you have done it. You have stated that Peter Singer's arguments provide justification for the LDS church's position.
I would imagine that Peter Singer would be about the last person that the LDS church would like to quote in their new releases. However, who knows....the undergraduate grandson-of-a-GA who presumably wrote the Gay Marriage press release as a class term paper may actually do it! |
03-27-2009, 05:50 PM | #4 |
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well, presumably he would apply it more liberally. It sounds like he sees it as moral for about any reason up to 18 weeks gestation. I still say the Mormon list of "exceptions" fits well into his rhetoric otherwise.
Apparently, I was supposed to click on the wiki entry about him, but I didn't. |
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