The Sanctity of Life

BY PETER SINGER | AUGUST 30, 2005

During the next 35 years, the traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological, and demographic developments. By 2040, it may be that only a rump of hard-core, know-nothing religious fundamentalists will defend the view that every human life, from conception to death, is sacrosanct.

In retrospect, 2005 may be seen as the year...

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Peter Singer is professor at Princeton University and the University of Melbourne. His books include Practical Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979) and Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995).

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