After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?

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 alw...

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description 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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Adoption
Adoption - psychology
allocation of healthcare resources
Beginning of Human Life - ethics
Bioethics
Children
Children & youth
Congenital Abnormalities
Disabled persons
Disease
Down syndrome
enhancement
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Ethical aspects
euthanasia
Families & family life
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Fetal Viability
Fetus
Fetuses
Homicide - ethics
Humans
in vitro fertilisation and embryo transfer
Infant, Newborn
infanticide
Infanticide - ethics
Infanticide - legislation & jurisprudence
Infants
Moral Obligations
Morals
Mothers - psychology
Mutation
Newborn babies
Newborns
Parents
Parents & parenting
Pathology
Personhood
potentiality
religious ethics
Value of Life
Women's Health
Womens health
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