Created Equal Films: OK to Kill Newborns?

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"Pro-choice" rhetoric leads to some dangerous places. When the preborn is disqualified from personhood because of her lack of self-awareness, intellectual honesty requires us to also disqualify newborns.

Princeton professor Peter Singer knows this (check out this article by Scott Klusendorf). And so does the young man in this video.

Does the logical conclusion of this view terrify anyone else?

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