Peter Singer on Killing Disabled Newborns

Peter Singer is a professor of bioethics at Princeton University.  In an April 16 radio interview Singer made the case that it is "ethical" to deny severely disabled newborns medical treatment during their first year of life.  He stated that through Obamacare this is already happening and that we should accept that this is happening.  Singer says that this occurs, sometimes not because of costs but because doctors want to refrain from putting a burden on the parents.  .
     
       "If an infant is born with a massive hemorrhage in the brain that means it will be so severely disabled that if the infant lives it will never even be able to recognize its mother, it won’t be able to interact with any other human being, it will just lie there in the bed and you could feed it but that’s all that will happen, doctors will turn off the respirator that is keeping that infant alive.  I don’t know whether they are influenced by reducing costs. Probably they are just influenced by the fact that this will be a terrible burden for the parents to look after, and there will be no quality of life for the child. So we are already taking steps that quite knowingly and intentionally are ending the lives of severely disabled infants. And I think we ought to be more open in recognizing that this happens." - Singer
        
        What gives Singer the right to decide quality of life?  Anyway he believe personhood doesn't start at birth, and only starts when you have awareness of yourself in place and time.  But, how do we know baby's aren't aware? 
       I will leave you with this:  My mother owned a group home when I was a little and all the children there had pretty severe cognitive disabilities, but they were happier than most of us.  Also, I am no burden to my parents and though it is sometimes hard we get through it.