April 30, 1999

Protesters Condemn Princeton's Hiring of Controversial Scholar

About 100 abortion opponents and disabled-rights activists this month protested Princeton University's hiring of the bioethicist Peter Singer, who has written that parents should be able to help decide whether to end the lives of their severely disabled newborns.

The protesters rallied on a street in front of the campus before moving to a nearby plaza to listen to speeches. A campus group, Princeton Students Against Infanticide,