Tag: Infanticide

Over the last two posts, I have discussed the suggestion, published in The Journal of Medical Ethics, that parents (or the state) should be able to kill their infants if they discover a defect or hardship that would have led them to have aborted the baby before birth. Much...

Yesterday I posted about the Journal of Medical Ethics' article about “post-birth abortions.” In this post I’d like to focus on one important aspect of that article: their definition of personhood. Few questions could be more important than this: what makes a person? The way we answer this question reveals...

The Journal of Medical Ethics recently published an article advocating “post-birth abortions.” Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva, who wrote the article, argue that there are many cases where women have abortions because having a child would be physically, psychologically, or economically difficult for them. But what if these hardships...