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History, Infanticide, and Imperiled Newborns
Author(s) -
Post Stephen G.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3563222
Subject(s) - psychology , injury prevention , suicide prevention , poison control , criminology , medical emergency , medicine
Ethicists who advocate the permissibility of infanticide often have misrepresented history in their arguments. The Western tradition supports the prohibition of active killing of congenitally impaired or premature newborns whose futures are uncertain.