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Peter Singer on Life and Death Decision-Making (originally on Bioethics Bites)

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The Importance of Ending a Disability

Some disability groups feel that in some way this is a judgment that their lives are less worth living than those of others. So I think it's important that the termination of the pregnancy or even since we were talking about euthanasia ending the life of the newborn infant that that is not a person who is capable of expressing a view on it yet it's a decision to end a life before it's fully begun. But after all that judgment is not really one we can fully avoid.

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