Payal just sent me an article from the NY Times Magazine entitled Unspeakable Conversations, by Harriet McBryde Johnson. The article is about the issues around euthanizing disabled babies. What’s interesting is that Johnson herself is disabled and would’ve been a candidate for euthanasia under this theory. From the article, discussing one of the main proponents of selective euthanasia, Prof. Peter Singer:

He insists he doesn’t want to kill me. He simply thinks it would have been better, all things considered, to have given my parents the option of killing the baby I once was, and to let other parents kill similar babies as they come along and thereby avoid the suffering that comes with lives like mine and satisfy the reasonable preferences of parents for a different kind of child. It has nothing to do with me. I should not feel threatened.

Interesting read.