{"id":14680,"date":"2020-02-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/19\/peter-singer-event-cancelled-in-new-zealand-after-outcry-over-disability-stance"},"modified":"2020-02-19T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T01:00:00","slug":"peter-singer-event-cancelled-in-new-zealand-after-outcry-over-disability-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14680","title":{"rendered":"Peter Singer event cancelled in New Zealand after outcry over disability stance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venue says Singer\u2019s beliefs \u2013 which include that parents should be allowed to euthanise disabled newborns \u2013 \u2018do not reflect our values\u2019<\/p>\n<p>An event with Australian philosopher Peter Singer has been cancelled in New Zealand after outcry over his <a href=\"https:\/\/thespinoff.co.nz\/society\/19-02-2020\/disabled-voices-on-peter-singer-whos-actually-listening-to-this-guy\/\">public stance on the morality of killing some disabled newborns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Singer, best known as a proponent of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/belief\/2017\/nov\/23\/its-called-effective-altruism-but-is-it-really-the-best-way-to-do-good\">effective altruism movement<\/a>\u201d, has previously written that parents should be allowed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/1999\/nov\/06\/weekend.kevintoolis\">euthanise disabled babies if they wish to<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/19\/peter-singer-event-cancelled-in-new-zealand-after-outcry-over-disability-stance\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venue says Singer\u2019s beliefs \u2013 which include that parents should be allowed to euthanise disabled newborns \u2013 \u2018do not reflect our values\u2019An event with Australian philosopher Peter Singer has been cancelled in New Zealand after outcry over his public stan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14682,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14680\/revisions\/14682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}