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The argument for the moral permissibility of killing newborns is a challenge to liberal
positions on abortion because it can be considered a reductio of their defence of abortion …

In their controversial paper 'After-birth abortion', Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva
argue that there is no rational basis for allowing abortion but prohibiting infanticide ('after …

Giubilini and Minerva present a clear argument for the view that, other things being equal,
reasons that justify abortion also hold for early infanticide. 1 A reasoned argument deserves …

In a recent paper, Giubilini and Minerva argue for the moral permissibility of what they call
'after-birth abortion', or infanticide. Here I suggest that they actually employ a confusion of …

In their paper'After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?'Alberto Giubilini and Francesca
Minerva argue that because there are no significant differences between a fetus and a …

Abortion is largely accepted even for reasons that do not have anything to do with the fetus'
health. By showing that (1) both fetuses and newborns do not have the same moral status as …

In 'After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?', Giubilini and Minerva argue that
infanticide should be permitted for the same reasons as abortion. In particular, they argue …

Recent controversy over philosophical advocacy of infanticide (or the comically-styled
euphemism 'postnatal abortion') reveals a surprisingly common premise uniting many of the …

Giubilini and Minerva argue that the permissibility of abortion entails the permissibility of
infanticide. Proponents of what we refer to as the Birth Strategy claim that there is a morally …