Alberto Giubilini and Francesco Minerva's recent infanticide proposal is predicated on their
personism and actualism. According to these related ideas, human beings achieve their …

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 …

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 …

This paper identifies and contests the thesis it takes to be the central premise of Giubilini and
Minerva,'Why should the baby live?', namely that rights, subjecthood and personhood have …

It is not only the Christian or other theist religions which raise their voices against relaxing
laws against euthanasia. Many humanists, concerned with the future of mankind, express …

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 …

The growing support for voluntary active euthanasia (VAE) is evident in the recently
approved Dutch Law on Termination of Life on Request. Indeed, the debate over legalized …

The birth of a normal child is an event full of happiness and joy for its ftmily, yet the birth of a
handicapped baby can be a terrible human tragedy, since it entails difficult problems to be …

Abstract On February 2014, the Belgian Parliament approved the first law on children
euthanasia stating that also young children can make the autonomous choice to have their …

One of the most recent controversies to arise in the field of bioethics concerns the ethics for
the Groningen Protocol: the guidelines proposed by the Groningen Academic Hospital in …