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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

This is a response to Giubilini and Minerva arguing that, on the basis of the similar moral
status of the fetus and infant, infanticide is justifiable for many of the same reasons that justify …

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 …

Giubilini and Minerva ask why birth should be a critical dividing line between acceptable
and unacceptable reasons for terminating existence. Their argument is that birth does not …

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 …