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
actual persons,(2) the fact that both are potential persons is morally irrelevant and (3)
adoption is not always in the best interest of actual people, the authors argue that what we
call 'after-birth abortion'(killing a newborn) should be permissible in all the cases where
abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled.

According to Julian Savulescu, Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics “Giubilini and Minerva
extend the long running debate on infanticide to ask: if abortion is permissible both for social
as well as medical reasons, why is infanticide permissible only for medical reasons? What is
the moral difference between a fetus and a neonate that justifies this difference? Both have
similar capacities and if one is permissible, why not the other?” 1