The contemporary moral philosopher Peter Singer has addressed the ethics surrounding
medical infanticide within developed countries. Singer argues that infanticide is equivalent …

In January 2012, the Journal of Medical Ethics published online Giubilini and Minerva's
paper,'After-birth abortion. Why should the baby live?'. 1 The Journal publishes articles …

The growing support for voluntary active euthanasia (VAE) is evident in the recently
approved Dutch Law on Termination of Life on Request. Indeed, the debate over legalized …

Alberto Giubilini and Francesco Minerva's recent infanticide proposal is predicated on their
personism and actualism. According to these related ideas, human beings achieve their …

Jeremy Bentham, protesting against the cruelty of inflicting the death penalty on mothers
who kill their newborn infants, described infanticide as the killing of a being 'who has ceased …

This article discusses the nature of euthanasia, and the way in which redevelopment of the
concept of euthanasia in some influential recent philosophical writing has led to morally less …

Peter Singer is a widely published and controversial philosopher and ethicist. His views on
animal liberation and bio-medical ethics have become prominent in both philosophical …

Since 1973 the practice of infanticide for some severely handicapped newborns has been
receiving more open discussion and defence in the literature on medical ethics. A recent …

Say an infant is born with high lesion spina bifida. She is paralyzed from the waist down and
has severe wasting of all areas below the waist. She will always be doubly incontinent and …

The decision, whether to treat the 2000 severely impaired infants born each year in
Australia, where the intended outcome of such non-treatment is death, raises complex legal …