Category Archives: Peter Singer

Today on Deathstyles of the Rich and Abled: Costs Illustrated Magazine

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By INGRID TISCHER Welcome to the world of Champagne lifetimes and caviar deaths! I’m Robbin’ Leech, your guide to the deathstyle media titans that are teaching us how the fabulously wealthy celebrate the moments of their end-of-lives. Today I’ll be sharing two sumptuous images from Costs Illustrated magazine and then dazzling you with one glorious … Continue reading Today on Deathstyles of the Rich and Abled: Costs Illustrated Magazine →

Lisa Blumberg: What Principles Should Govern Charlie Gard’s Case?

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The Charlie Gard case concerns a young British child with a very rare genetic condition that has currently left him unable to move, breathe or eat on his own. His parents wanted to take him to the United States for experimental treatment but his London doctors, believing he has suffered enough, wanted to turn off … Continue reading Lisa Blumberg: What Principles Should Govern Charlie Gard’s Case? →

Chicago Action Alert On Peter Singer: The Worst You Can Do

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ACTION ALERT Peter Singer: The Worst You Can Do On Saturday, October 24, the bioethicist Dr. Peter Singer will be delivering a lecture at Northwestern University in Evanston. The lecture is titled “The Most Good You Can Do.” Ironically Dr. Singer is well known for his views that people with severe disabilities do not lead … Continue reading Chicago Action Alert On Peter Singer: The Worst You Can Do →

Additional Letters to Princeton Regarding Peter Singer – Bob Kafka (ADAPT) and Kathy Brill (Parent to Parent USA)

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Yesterday, we launched our Change.org petition “Denounce Lethal Anti-Disability Healthcare Policy Advocated by Peter Singer.” We presently have over 300 people who have signed on to the petition. Please add your own name by clicking here and following the directions. In addition to the statement we shared and quoted from the National Council on Disability, … Continue reading Additional Letters to Princeton Regarding Peter Singer – Bob Kafka (ADAPT) and Kathy Brill (Parent to Parent USA) →

Denounce Lethal Anti-Disability Healthcare Policy Advocated by Peter Singer (Change.org)

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As many readers are probably aware, news broke last week that Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer had once again pushed the envelope on his decades-long assault on the value and lives of disabled people.  In remarks broadcast live, Singer asserted that both government healthcare and private insurance can and should deny and/or limit healthcare to people … Continue reading Denounce Lethal Anti-Disability Healthcare Policy Advocated by Peter Singer (Change.org) →