Universität Duisburg-Essen, Institut für Philosophie, Essen 45117, Germany.
J Med Ethics. 2013 May;39(5):e19-20. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2012-100621.
The argument for the moral permissibility of killing newborns is a challenge to liberal positions on abortion because it can be considered a reductio of their defence of abortion. Here I defend the liberal stance on abortion by arguing that the argument for the moral permissibility of killing newborns on ground of the social, psychological and economic burden on the parents recently put forward by Giubilini and Minerva is not valid; this is because they fail to show that newborns cannot be harmed and because there are morally relevant differences between fetuses and newborns.
杀新生儿在道德上的允许性的论点是对自由派关于堕胎立场的挑战，因为它可以被视为对他们堕胎辩护的归谬。在这里，我通过论证最近朱比里尼和米内瓦提出的以父母的社会、心理和经济负担为由杀死新生儿在道德上的允许性的论点是无效的，从而捍卫了自由派关于堕胎的立场；这是因为他们未能表明新生儿不会受到伤害，以及胎儿和新生儿之间存在具有道德意义的差异。
