PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Veit, Walter
TI  - Does birth matter?
AID  - 10.1136/medethics-2020-107034
DP  - 2022 Mar 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 194--195
VI  - 48
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/48/3/194.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/48/3/194.full
SO  - J Med Ethics2022 Mar 01; 48
AB  - 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.