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Mothers killing their young would benefit society

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Channel: Contrarian Christianity · 2012 · Education

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Should a mothers abortion rights be extended so as to allow her to take the life of a healthy new-born baby?

The following is a link to the article in full as it was published in the Journal of Medical Ethics.
http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2012/02/22/medethics-2011-100411.full
**Sorry! the article seems to have been removed from the Journals web site.**
The following is a link to a news article covering the story. It includes portions of the origional paper.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/320501

The following is a link to the website of the Journal of Medical Ethics.
http://jme.bmj.com/

For people who do not believe doctors perform late term abortions or that laws prevent it please check the following.
This link is to a website advertising late term abortions
http://latetermabortion.net/

The following is a link to an article regarding Canadian law and the fact most Canadians have to go to the US for late term abortions even thou there are no laws retricting abortions in Canada.
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20040912/quebec_abortion_040911/

The following are the co-authors of the paper. 
Professor Sergio Bartolommei
Professor Alberto Giubilini 

Of interest:
The journal's editor, Prof Julian Savulescu, director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, said the article's authors had received death threats since publishing the article. He said those who made abusive and threatening posts about the study were "fanatics opposed to the very values of a liberal society". 

The article, entitled "After-birth abortion: Why should the baby live?", was written by two of Prof Savulescu's former associates, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva. 

They argued: "The moral status of an infant is equivalent to that of a fetus in the sense that both lack those properties that justify the attribution of a right to life to an individual." 

Rather than being "actual persons", newborns were "potential persons". They explained: "Both a fetus and a newborn certainly are human beings and potential persons, but neither is a 'person' in the sense of 'subject of a moral right to life'

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