{"id":6185,"date":"2009-07-16T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/07\/peter-singer-dreams\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T14:53:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T21:53:47","slug":"peter-singer-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/07\/peter-singer-dreams.html","title":{"rendered":"Peter Singer Dreams&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/19\/magazine\/19healthcare-t.html?_r=2&amp;ref=magazine\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">of Killing Off Weak, Old, and Chronically Ill.<\/a>  It\u2019s cheaper that way.<\/p>\n<p>And judging from the sort of people Obama is surrounding himself with, we are headed in that direction.  After all, what could be scary about making your Science Czar a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/Obamas-science-czar-suggested-compulsory-abortion-sterilization-50783612.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">guy who recommended a regime of forced abortion and sterilization<\/a>?  Certainly somebody who was willing to do that in order to head off the fantasy of the Great Overpopulation Famine of the 80s would never use his power to implement hysteria-driven pre-emptive measure to Stop Climate Change or anything.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>of Killing Off Weak, Old, and Chronically Ill. It\u2019s cheaper that way. And judging from the sort of people Obama is surrounding himself with, we are headed in that direction. 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