Catholic Online Forum

Singer’s debate opponent, Oxford philosophy professor John Finnis, responded that human rights are not created or conferred by government or by society; they are only recognized, he said—because the rights are prior to the authority of government.

Finnis objected to the use of the term “fetus” to refer to an unborn child, saying that the use of the term is a way of disguise the human identity of the child. A pregnant woman, he pointed out, invariably speaks of her “baby.”

We have to get rid of the idea of evil,” said Frances Kissling, an abortion rights advocate turned bioethics scholar, who also organized the conference.
Kissling shocked the audience in the last session by saying, “I don’t care how you accomplish it [the right to abortion], whether through a constitution, the UN, state laws or federals laws, or by the Taliban.”

Grace,

I believe the Taliban are anti-abortion. So, I think, is al Qaeda.

It seems Peter Singer is indeed still an Australian citizen. I wonder if we can just quietly cancel his passport. (It's been done at least once before to an undersirable while overseas.)