If abortion, why not infanticide?

A Tipping Point on Abortion?

 by Michael Cook

Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva, both working in Australia at the moment, argue that a foetus and a new-born infant are only potential persons without any interests. Therefore the interests of the persons involved with them are paramount until some indefinite time after birth. To emphasise the continuity between the two acts, they term it “after-birth abortion” rather than infanticide. Guibilini and Minerva pull no punches.  "We claim that killing a newborn could be ethically permissible in all the circumstances where abortion would be. Such circumstances include cases where the newborn has the potential to have an (at least) acceptable life, but the well-being of the family is at risk.”

http://www.crisismagazine.com/2012/a-tipping-point-on-abortion