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Revision as of 19:55, July 17, 2007
Peter Singer is an Australian philosopher who is best known for his book Animal Liberation.
- Singer advocates the killing of certain newborn infants at the discretion of their parents.
- The conditions he has explicitly named as sufficient justification for active infanticide include Down syndrome, spina bifida, and hemophilia. [1]
Newsweek wrote:
- The modern animal rights movement may be dated to the 1975 publication of Animal Liberation by Australian philosopher Peter Singer. [2]