TY - JOUR T1 - Yes, the baby should live: a pro-choice response to Giubilini and Minerva JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics SP - 330 LP - 335 DO - 10.1136/medethics-2012-100656 VL - 39 IS - 5 AU - Bertha Alvarez Manninen Y1 - 2013/05/01 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/39/5/330.abstract N2 - In their paper 'After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?' Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva argue that because there are no significant differences between a fetus and a neonate, in that neither possess sufficiently robust mental traits to qualify as persons, a neonate may be justifiably killed for any reason that also justifies abortion. To further emphasise their view that a newly born infant is more on a par with a fetus rather than a more developed baby, Giubilini and Minerva elect to call this 'after-birth abortion' rather than infanticide. In this paper, I argue that their thesis is incorrect, and that the moral permissibility of abortion does not entail the moral permissibility of 'after-birth' abortion. ER -