Princeton Hiring Sparks Protest

More than 100 protesters denounced Princeton University for hiring a philosopher whose controversial views include allowing parents to end the lives of their severely disabled infants. “Nazi Germany did the same thing to the disabled, judging their lives not worth living. We object to that,” said John Scaturro, 49, who protested near the Princeton, N.J., Ivy League school along with his wife and young daughter. University officials stood by the appointment of Peter Singer, a professor whose academic work they say will contribute to scholarship and ethics debates at Princeton. Singer is widely considered the father of the international animal rights movement, and has argued that parents should have the right to euthanize newborn children who have severe handicaps.