Killing Newborn Babies No Different To Abortion, Say Medical EthicistsA medical journal has called for the acceptance of ‘after-birth abortion’ (killing a newborn baby), causing outrage among pro-life campaigners and raising an array of ethical questions.
Writing in the
Journal of Medical Ethics, Alberto Giubilini from the
University of Milan and Francesca Minerva from
Melbourne University argue that foetuses and newborns “do not have the same moral status as actual persons".
The authors say that killing a newborn baby should be “permissible in all cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled". They add that “the fact that both are potential persons is morally irrelevant".
The ‘
After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?’ paper argues that the act wouldn’t be classed as euthanasia because the best interest of the foetus or newborn being killed is not necessarily the primary reason his or her life is being terminated.
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I had no idea that infanticide was practiced in the Netherlands. I wanted more elaboration on that. Is an institutional thing practiced in hospitals or certain parts of the population do it in private? Either way...this is just appalling.