Peter Singer, while taking questions from Independent readers :

Would you kill a disabled baby? KAREN MEADE, Dublin Yes, if that was in the best interests of the baby and of the family as a whole. Many people find this shocking, yet they support a woman’s right to have an abortion. One point on which I agree with opponents of abortion is that, from the point of view of ethics rather than the law, there is no sharp distinction between the foetus and the newborn baby.