PRINCETON, May 8, 2001 (LSN.ca) – It was a Canadian, Harold T. Shapiro, who gave Princeton University notoriety for having given tenure to one of the world’s best-known promoters of infanticide – Dr. Peter Singer. Dr. Shirley Tilghman, another Canadian, is replacing Shapiro as Princeton University president after Shapiro announced his retirement after serving at the post for 13 years. While the fact that Tilghman will be the first female president the University has had, the appointment will not do much to pull Princeton out of the ethical gutter it jumped into with Singer.
As head of the National Institutes of Health committee that created guidelines for embryonic stem cell research, Tilghman supported the killing of human persons in their embryonic stage of development as an ethical and correct means of science. Reacting to the appointment, Father Joseph C. Howard, Jr., director of the American Bioethics Advisory Commission (a division of American Life League) said: “She will continue to lead the university and its students down the road of unethical and unnecessary scientific practices that take the lives of innocent human persons. This is a sad day for Princeton University and its students.”
See the coverage from the National Post at: https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010508/555721.html