Abstract Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva's controversial article 'After‐Birth Abortion:
Why Should the Baby Live?'has received a lot of criticism since its publishing. Part of the …

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 …

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 …

In this paper we clarify some issues related to our previous article 'After-birth abortion: why
should the baby live?'. After the publication of our article 'After-birth abortion: why should the …

I defend a relational account of difference in the moral status between fetuses and
newborns. The difference in moral status between a fetus and a newborn is that the newborn …

This paper argues that the central issue in the abortion debate has not changed since 1967
when the English parliament enacted the Abortion Act. That central issue concerns the moral …

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 …

What role does birth play in the debate about elective abortion? Does the wrongness of
infanticide imply the wrongness of late-term abortion? In this paper, I argue that the same or …

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 …

Despite its prominence in the abortion debate and in public policy, the discourse of 'unborn
patient'has not been subjected to critical scrutiny. We provide a critical analysis in three …