A guru of animal rights ensnared in a moral maze

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It is advisable in certain circumstances to end the life of an extremely brain-damaged new-born baby by lethal injection, according to Peter Singer, director of the Centre for Human BioEthics at Monash University, Australia. This view has attracted considerable controversy, particularly as Singer earlier pioneered the concept of animals having rights. He emphasizes that doctors frequently make decisions about whether a new-born baby should be allowed to survive. If the baby is to die, this happens slowly through dehydration or starvation. He is merely seeking to humanize this practice through using lethal injection.

Care and treatment, Interview, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Philosophers, Brain-damaged children, Singer, Peter (British judge)

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What is life in the womb without mother?

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The recent case of a 24-year-old woman who is severely brain damaged but is being kept alive in order to allow her unborn child to continue to grow has highlighted the ethical problems associated with cases of this kind. Dilemmas include the woman's rights over her own body, society's obligations to unborn children and moral issues relating to resource management. Some observers suspect doctors of wishing to use the case as an experiment, while others believe that it is wrong to wilfully create a motherless child.

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Science gives birth to a multiple dilemma

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Developments such as the use of genetically engineered maize and soya and the possibility of transplanting pigs' organs into humans have raised some very difficult issues relating to medical ethics in the UK in 1996. It is very difficult for society to reach a consensus on such issues when no common moral language exists, but many people remain concerned about these developments. Some cases have presented old ethical dilemmas in new ways, while others have presented completely new dilemmas.

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