> Uh, Marta, I have to agree with J. Noonan on this one.
> I am not particularly a fan of Singer's views on
> infanticide. But, are we really supposed to be impressed
> that a bunch of jackbooted "pro-lifers" are demanding his
> resignation from Princeton? I can only say that I hope
> that the administration at Princeton has enough backbone to
> stand up to this kind of pressure from these jerks.
> Barkley Rosser
Barkley,
The point of forwarding the article was to inform. But I do have to say that in defense of what you call "jackbooted "pro-lifers", when the Nazis started killing disabled people in Germany the group which stopped Hitler and the physicians was the Catholic Church headed by Bishop von Galen, a conservative. So I hesitate to condemn people with a label, when sometimes they come forth at the right time and question the liberals who prize themselves on being the defenders of the downtrodden but often act falsely. Geraldine Farraro, Pat Schroeder, Henry Waxman, Barney Frank all supported allowing Baby Jane Doe to die of starvation. It was (surprise) Henry Hyde who stood up to protect the rights of the baby under the constitution.
I've learned not be so quick to put all the right wingers in one boat, and condemn them all of the time.
Marta Russell