Mario Cuomo, faith and the science of humanity

Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo had a widely discussed NYT op-ed last week on religious motivations for opposing embryonic stem cell research, and the need to ignore such pleas. This sentence is indicative of his argument:

No doubt the president’s belief that human life begins with fertilization is shared by millions of Americans, including many Christians and evangelists. But it remains a minority view and one that the president applies inconsistently.

His article got a rebuke on precisely this claim from an unlikely source – Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer, who has advocated allowing parents to kill their infants up to 30 days after birth. Find out why here.