Specter had lengthy conversations with Singer in Australia. Very often it is not wrong at all. The loss of happy life for the first infant is outweighed by the gain of happier life for the second. Therefore, if killing the hemophiliac infant has no adverse effect on others, it would, according to the total view, be right to kill him. To say that our friends in the disability movement are up in arms over such outrageous and dangerous nonsense is an understatement.
Singer can have some peculiar notions about what actions are wrong.
According to Specter, Singer's prescription in case of an inconclusive amniocentesis result is for the woman to deliver the child and see if the child is normal or not. The coarser the heart, the more leeway to act brutally-an absurd but unsurprising result of utilitarian ethics. If Singer's ideas were to become widely accepted, the life and liberty of all of us would be endangered. It's an awful scandal, at the least.