Two Melbourne-based ethicists have recently called for the legalisation of infanticide.
Dr Alberto Giubilini, of Melbourne’s Monash University, and Dr Francesca Minerva at the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, have asserted, in the latest edition of the Journal of Medical Ethics (February 23, 2012), that the newborn are not persons.
They argue that if the abortion of the unborn is allowable, so too should be the termination — t…