is that even without Dr. Singer's poisonous arguments, it was already hard enough for my mother to advocate for my needs and get my doctors to think of me as a human being whose suffering was worthy of consideration. How much harder would it have been for her if otherwise reasonable people around her had been expounding the philosophy that infants - especially disabled infants - weren't even really conscious beings?
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Date: 2003-02-16 09:00 pm (UTC)Amen.