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• Law, ethics and medicine

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After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?

1. Alberto Giubilini1,2, 
2. Francesca Minerva3

+Author Affiliations

1. ¹Department of Philosophy, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
2. ²Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
3. ³Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

1. Correspondence toDr Francesca Minerva, CAPPE, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia;francesca.minerva@unimelb.edu.au

1. Contributors AG and FM contributed equally to the manuscript.

• Received 25 November 2011
• Revised 26 January 2012
• Accepted 27 January 2012
• Published Online First 23 February 2012

Abstract

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.

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