Singerism

If the 21st century becomes a Singer century, we will also see legal infanticide of born children who are ill or who have ill older siblings in need of their body parts. Question: What about parents conceiving and giving birth to a child specifically to kill him, take his organs, and transplant them into their ill older children? Mr. Singer: "It's difficult to warm to parents who can take such a detached view, [but] they're not doing something really wrong in itself."

Is there anything wrong with a society in which children are bred for spare parts on a massive scale?

"No."

When we had lunch a month after our initial interview and I read back his answers to him, he said he would be "concerned about a society where the role of some women was to breed children for that purpose," but he stood by his statements. He also reaffirmed that it would be ethically OK to kill 1-year-olds with physical or mental disabilities, although ideally the question of infanticide would be "raised as soon as possible after birth."
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The remainder here: "Blue-state philosopher." Perhaps its silly and naive of me to be shocked in some way by reading Mr. Singer's "ethics," but I had to re-read a couple lines just to make sure. This is where Western philosophy and ethics has led to. Hoorah for us. Hoorah for progress.