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Peter Singer: ?Should this be the last generation??

By Alliance Alert

Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, writing at the NYT's Opinionator blog: "Have you ever thought about whether to have a child? If so, what factors entered into your decision? Was it whether having children would be good for you, your partner and others close to the possible child, such as children you may already have, or perhaps your parents? For most people contemplating reproduction, those are the dominant questions. Some may also think about the desirability of adding to the strain that the nearly seven billion people already here are putting on our planet?s environment. But very few ask whether coming into existence is a good thing for the child itself. Most of those who consider that question probably do so because they have some reason to fear that the child?s life would be especially difficult ? for example, if they have a family history of a devastating illness, physical or mental, that cannot yet be detected prenatally." | Via Wesley J. Smith.

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 07, 2010 (boomark / email).