October 6, 2004
The Vermont Right to Life Committee exists to restore legal protection to those members of the human family who are threatened by abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia.
Pro-life supporters will join the disability rights community and others on Thursday, October 7th at 4:30pm to protest the arrival of controversial professor of bioethics, Peter Singer who has been invited to speak at Ira Allen Chapel.
Professor Peter Singer promotes the killing of disabled newborns and others. Singer believes that baby animals are the moral equivalent of newborn humans and advocates for euthanasia of terminally ill adults and disabled infants.
Peter Singer was appointed to the Ira W. DeCamp Professorship of Bioethics at Princeton University's Center for Human Values. Advocates for the disabled and pro-life organizations vigorously protested his selection in 1999.
According to the textbook co authored by Singer in 1993, Practical Ethics, "the life of a newborn is of less value than the life of a pig, a dog, or a chimpanzee." And "a period of 28 days after birth might be allowed before an infant is accepted as having the same right to live as others."
Eileen Haupt will be the spokesperson for VRLC at the protest. Eileen is a delegate from Chittenden County to the VRLC board of directors and mother of two daughters, one of whom has Down syndrome.
While passionate in her defense of all human life, Eileen is especially concerned about the use of medical technology to detect genetic conditions in pre-born babies for the purpose of aborting them.
“Peter Singer takes this discriminatory practice one step further by advocating the killing of disabled newborns," stated Eileen Haupt. "It is unthinkable that UVM is hosting Singer and legitimizing his radical anti-human life philosophy by giving him a podium. I think UVM owes Vermonters with disabilities an apology and should provide a speaker to counter Singer’s views,” Eileen concluded.
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We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.