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Philosophers debate abortion at Princeton conference as baby in audience cries

By Alliance Alert

Terrence McKeegan, J.D. writing at LifeNews: "'An infant has no moral status because he is not self-aware,' said Peter Singer, a professor of bioethics. Singer argued this point at an historic [conference] he co-organized at Princeton University last weekend, seeking new dialogue on the heated issue of abortion . . . The headline panel featured two heavyweight Australian philosophers ? Singer, a bioethics professor at Princeton, and John Finnis, a professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Oxford. The two debated the 'Moral Status of the Fetus.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on October 22, 2010 (boomark / email).