This article responds to Giubilini and Minerva's article 'After birth abortion: why should the
baby live?'published in the Journal of Medical Ethics. They argue for the permissibility of …

Scholars have offered various critiques of Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva's
controversial article,'After‐birth abortion: Why should the baby live?'My book The Ethics of …

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 …

We are grateful that as renowned a journal as the Monash Bioethics Review opened up a
discussion about our article 'After-birth abortion Why should the baby live?'1 and provided …

Our contention is that all of the major arguments for abortion are also arguments for
permitting infanticide. One cannot distinguish the fetus from the infant in terms of a morally …

The above paper by Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva has stirred up a flurry of
disturbing responses. While the very question posed in the title may be offensive to some …

The aim of this essay is to show that there are no easy options for those who are disturbed
by the suggestion that infanticide may on occasion be morally permissible. The belief that …

In my essay, Why abortion is immoral, I criticised discussions of the morality of abortion in
which the crucial issue is whether fetuses are human beings or whether fetuses are persons …

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 …