Princeton University has hired a bioethics professor who advocates animal rights and rejects the sanctity of human life. It is, rather, characteristics like rationality, autonomy and self-consciousness that make a difference. Defective infants can lack these characteristics. Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Fewer than a half-million unwed couples lived together in 1960.
Most cohabiting couples say they intend to marry, but the reality for many couples is different.
Forty percent never make it to the altar. All rights reserved.