PUTTING DISABLED INFANTS TO DEATH.... ALERT!
During this past week several disAbility advocates have come
out against the hiring of Peter Singer at one of the top
universities of learning in the USA. Below is a portion of
the April 17, 1999 statement of Marcia Bristo, Chairperson,
National Council On Disability regarding the hiring of Peter
Singer at Princeton University, New Jersey USA.
Good afternoon. My name is Marca Bristo and I am the Chairperson
of the National Council on Disability, an independent federal
agency advising the President and the Congress on public policy
issues affecting the 54 million Americans with disabilities and
their families. I want to thank Christopher Benek and Princeton
Students Against Infanticide for inviting me to participate in
today's event.
I have read Peter Singer's Practical Ethics, and I am extremely
concerned that Princeton University has chosen to honor the
author of this dangerous work with an esteemed position that
will influence the way future leaders of America and the World
will think about the value of a disabled person's life. I am
not a philosopher or an ethicist, but I know what is right and
what is wrong.
Condoning the murder of infants is wrong. Devaluing the life
of a human because of her disability is discriminatory, hateful,
and bigoted. Peter Singer can package his ideas as utilitarian,
practical, ethical, logical, even reasonable if he chooses. The
plain truth is that Peter Singer thinks people with disabilities
have lives that aren't worth living.
WAPD ALERT!!!!
All PWD's go to the Princeton Website and pick out an
email address to protest this very serious matter. Send
it NOW! Get ten (10) friends online to email them about
this appointment. The goal is 500,000. Help! NOW!
Princeton University
http://www.princeton.edu/index.shtml
Here is one address we found that should pass it along
to the President, Harold T. Shapiro, Ph.D., that doesn't
seem to have an e-mail address.
Justin Harmon, director Communications Services Group
mailto:[log in to unmask]
OR
Write a Snail Mail Letter to:
Harold T. Shapiro, Ph.D.,
President of Princeton
Trustee Ex-Officio of Princeton University
One Nassau Hall Department:
Princeton, NJ. 08540
Elizabeth Thiers, OTR
email: [log in to unmask]
homepage: http://www.bv.net/~john/bethsot1.html
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