Infanticide and moral consistency

J McMahan - Journal of medical ethics, 2013 - jme.bmj.com
… status between a fetus and a newborn infant, and that infanticide is never … consistency of
the claims with which we are concerned here. Our concern is whether the belief that infanticide

Infanticide

J McMahan - Utilitas, 2007 - cambridge.org
consistency of our intuitions exert pressure on us either to accept the occasional permissibility
of infanticide … belief that infanticide is immoral, our intuitions about the moral status of …

Mothers who kill: evolutionary underpinnings and infanticide law

SH Friedman, J Cavney… - Behavioral sciences & the …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… their infanticide acts. This article reviews the central controversies of infanticide legislation
in … this discussion, it is argued that infanticide legislation is at best unnecessary and at worst …

Infant rights and the morality of infanticide

P Montague - Nous, 1989 - JSTOR
… the morality of infanticide depends on considerations very different from those on which the
morality … Other philosophers claim, however, that the morality of killing infants depends on the …

Infanticide and madness

RP George - Journal of medical ethics, 2013 - jme.bmj.com
… (since the implications for infanticide are clear, and were … would think that infanticide is
perfectly morally permissible. The … that advocating infanticide or its moral permissibility is moral

Infanticide: contrasting views

MG Spinelli - Archives of Women's Mental Health, 2005 - Springer
infanticide case in American Judicial System in which a floridly psychotic mother serves a life
in prison. This work explores contemporary worldwide experiences of infanticideinfanticide

Beyond infanticide: how psychological accounts of persons can justify harming infants

D Rodger, BP Blackshaw, C Miller - The New Bioethics, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
… We suggest that infanticide and these other pre-personal acts are morally heinous and
that this judgment is rightly widely shared. Insofar as this is the case, the credibility of …

Why arguments against infanticide remain convincing: A reply to Räsänen

D Rodger, BP Blackshaw, C Wilcox - Bioethics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
moral intuitions ought to be rejected; consistency would commit him to reject any view that
provides moral justification for infanticide, … killing infants is considered morally abhorrent. All …

The history of infanticide: exposure, sacrifice, and femicide

M Levittan - Violence and Abuse in Society. Understanding a …, 2012 - books.google.com
… To fully understand motives for the act of infanticide, it is necessary to suspend moral
judgments and explore specific inner demands and environmental triggers in a clear light. Any …

Children: an inheritance from the Lord. Infanticide and the value of life

RDW Hain - 2021 - ora.ox.ac.uk
… is always wrong is doubtfully compatible with a range of widely shared moral beliefs that …
the morality of abortion, infanticide and the killing of animals that is internally consistent and …