Ethics Professor Supports Infanticide Under Obamacare
Princeton University ethics professor Peter Singer argued during an interview on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” (on New York’s AM 970 and Philadelphia’s 990 AM) that it is “reasonable” for government or private insurance companies to deny treatment to severely disabled babies.
Singer contends the health-care system under Obamacare should be more overt about rationing and that the country should acknowledge the necessity of “intentionally ending the lives of severely disabled infants.”
Throughout the interview, Singer repeatedly referred to a disabled infant as “it.”
The Princeton professor is known for his controversial views on abortion and infanticide. He essentially argues that the right to life is related to a being’s capacity for intelligence and to hold life preferences, which in turn is directly related to a capacity to feel and comprehend pain and pleasure.
Singer was asked whether he believes health-care rationing under Obamacare will become more prevalent. He replied that rationing is already occurring, explaining doctors and hospitals routinely make decisions based on costs.
This reporter quoted from a section of Singer’s 1993 treatise Practical Ethics, titled “Taking Life: Humans.” In the section, Singer argued for the morality of “non-voluntary euthanasia” for human beings not capable of understanding the choice between life and death, including “severely disabled infants, and people who through accident, illness, or old age have permanently lost the capacity to understand the issue involved.”
For Singer, the immorality of killing a human being is not based on the fact that the individual is alive and human. Instead, Singer argued it is “characteristics like rationality, autonomy, and self-consciousness that make a difference.”
Asked whether he envisions denying treatment to disabled infants to become more common in the U.S. under the new health-care law, Singer replied, “If an infant is born with a massive hemorrhage in the brain, that means it will be so severely disabled that if the infant lives it will never even be able to recognize its mother, it won’t be able to interact with any other human being, it will just lie there in the bed and you could feed it but that’s all that will happen; doctors will turn off the respirator that is keeping that infant alive.… And I think we ought to be more open in recognizing that this happens.”
Singer was asked whether the killing of severely disabled infants should be institutionalized to reduce health-care costs.
He replied that such a plan would be “quite reasonable” if it saved money that can be used for better purposes. He contended that most people would say they don’t want their premiums to be higher “so that infants who can experience zero quality of life can have expensive treatments.”
What If ISIS Teams Up With Mexican Drug Cartels?
While U.S. government agencies have strongly denied a Judicial Watch report claiming there are ISIS camps near the U.S. border with Mexico, lawmakers have expressed fears that the global jihadist organization is linking up with deadly Mexican drug cartels.
Such a partnership would not only help facilitate the smuggling of jihadists into the U.S. but could ultimately translate into a devastating terrorist attack on American soil, such as an Electro Magnetic Pulse, or EMP, catastrophe.
Numerous U.S. lawmakers have repeatedly warned about ISIS teaming up with drug cartels. If it does, the result could be cataclysmic. Not only do Mexican drug gangs maintain sophisticated smuggling routes, some of the more dangerous Mexican group have evidenced guerrilla-like tactics already used in terrorist-style attacks.
On Oct. 27, 2013, for example, the criminal drug cartel known as the Knights Templars attacked electrical facilities and blacked out Mexico’s Michoacan state, which boasts a population of 420,000. During the blackout, the Knights Templars reportedly entered towns and villages at will, terrorized the citizens and police, and publicly executed leaders opposed to the drug trade.
In an attack still largely unexplained, on April 16, 2013, a sophisticated assault was carried out on PG&E Corp’s Metcalf Transmission Substation outside of San Jose, California, which supplies power to San Francisco and other areas. A team of gunmen fired sniper and assault rifles on the substation, severely damaging 17 transformers.
Jon Wellinghoff, the former chairman of the U.S. agency responsible for grid security, warned that the Metcalf attack was likely a dry run for a future large-scale attack on the U.S. electric grid.
On the same day as the Metcalf assault, North Korea flew its KSM-3 satellite on the optimum trajectory and altitude to evade U.S. radars and carry out a potential EMP attack drill.
An ISIS-Mexican drug cartel alliance could cause pandemonium in U.S. cities. Mexican drug cartels have established major networks within the U.S. Earlier this month it was reported that federal agents arrested 976 suspected gang members across scores of American cities in a large-scale operation in February and March. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said 199 of those arrested were foreign nationals.
Criminal street gangs are responsible for the majority of violent crimes within the U.S. and are the primary distributors of most illicit drugs, according to a report by the Justice Department’s National Drug Intelligence Center, or NDIC.
A 2011 FBI report draws a far dimmer picture of the nature of criminal gangs operating domestically. According to the FBI, criminal street gangs – mostly comprised of illegal aliens – are acquiring high-powered, military-style weapons to engage in lethal encounters with law enforcement members and citizens alike.
Is Turkey Providing Passports To ISIS?
Egypt is accusing Turkey of providing more than 10,000 Turkish passports to members of ISIS to facilitate their travel across the region.
An Egyptian intelligence official who asked not to be named told KleinOnline.com that his country delivered a report to the U.S. documenting the astonishing claim. The official further charged that Istanbul is serving as the “headquarters” for ISIS planning.
If the charge is true, it would present a worldwide threat.
