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'''Peter Singer''' is an [[Australian]] [[philosopher]] who is best known for his book ''Animal Liberation.''  

'''Peter Singer''' is an [[Australian]] [[philosopher]] who is best known for his book ''Animal Liberation.'' He is currently Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values at [[Princeton University]] and Laureate Professor at the [[University of Melbourne]]'s Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.<ref>http://www.princeton.edu/~psinger/</ref>

*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]]. [http://www.social-ecology.org/article.php?story=20031202122825648]

[[Newsweek]] wrote:

:The modern [[animal rights]] movement may be dated to the 1975 publication of Animal Liberation by Australian philosopher Peter Singer. [http://www.amazon.com/Animal-Liberation-Peter-Singer/dp/0060011572]

 

''[[Newsweek]]'' wrote, "The modern [[animal rights]] movement may be dated to the 1975 publication of ''Animal Liberation'' by Australian philosopher Peter Singer."<ref>http://www.amazon.com/Animal-Liberation-Peter-Singer/dp/0060011572</ref>

 

 

[http://www.princeton.edu/~psinger/ Peter Singer's Home page]

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