Correction to the Protest Alert! Article
I wanted to inform you about
a mistake we made in one sentence in the article for Access Press.
We wrote, “This means
that an estimated 54 million Americans, a population roughly the size of France,
are living in bodies that according to Peter Singer should have been killed upon
birth.” When we originally wrote this statement, it was following an argument
that Singer opens a slippery slope of where this needs to stop, given the history
of eugenics as applying to all people with disabilities.
However, during the process of editing we rearranged things so that
this became unlinked from the original point we had intended. We
did not mean to claim that Singer himself advocates for the euthanizing
of 54 million Americans, but our concern remains that if we make
infanticide legal, all people born with any degree of disability
might be at risk.
We are really sorry about this mistake.
Emily Smith
Disabled Student Cultural Center, University of Minnesota
