TY - JOUR T1 - Does birth matter? JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics SP - 194 LP - 195 DO - 10.1136/medethics-2020-107034 VL - 48 IS - 3 AU - Walter Veit Y1 - 2022/03/01 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/48/3/194.abstract N2 - This paper is a response to a recent paper by Bobier and Omelianchuk in which they argue that the critics of Giubilini and Minerva’s defence of infanticide fail to adequately justify a moral difference at birth. They argue that such arguments would lead to an intuitively less plausible position: that late-term abortions are permissible, thus creating a dilemma for those who seek to argue that birth matters. I argue that the only way to resolve this dilemma, is to bite the naturalist bullet and accept that the intuitively plausible idea that birth constitutes a morally relevant event is simply mistaken and biologically misinformed. ER -