Infanticide

Amendment Another option is to amend the current infanticide provision so that it no longer reads as a mental illness caused by the pregnancy/childbirth or lactation. Instead, a mental illness that appears “post childbirth” would incorporate men and remove pathologised ideas about women and their biology that predetermines them to be mentally ill and kill. Factors could be added to recognise that socio-economic deprivation acts as a catalyst for infanticide (Lambie, 2001). Such an amendment would retain

In her paper Infanticide in Hellenistic Greece, Sarah B. Pomeroy explores potential contributors to a gender imbalance in Hellenistic Greece. She identifies possible causes such as infanticide, stemming from a culture of general male preference, citing evidence such as census data and literary evidence to support this hypothesis. According to Pomeroy, Greeks considered infanticide to be a form of “family planning,” and not entirely different from a “late abortion.” Pomeroy cites literary evidence

I-Search Paper By Sivel Van Zee April 13, 2015 FEMALE INFANTICIDE I remember coming home from school one day and my mom handing me a flyer. I didn’t think much of it until I saw the large, bold lettering on the top. The words read, “IT’S A GIRL.” Normally that phrase was treated as a joyous occasion, but the font and serious theme of the flyer made me think otherwise. I continued to read and became more disturbed by the subject the flyer was discussing. My stomach tied into one large knot and I became

motive behind Medea’s infanticide in the play, one would most likely single out Spousal revenge. Readers can choose to argue that spousal revenge infanticide is the most reasonable motive but only if they choose to ignore the following statistics. According to West, a study conducted by the famous psychiatrist, Phillip Resnick, in 1970 shows that the spousal revenge filicide is the least occurring in comparison to others, as it accounts to only two percent while altruistic infanticide accounts to 49 percent

continued to be subjugated the most are the same group of people that makeup the majority of people on earth; women. Despite of all the progress made in recent decades, there are still tens of millions of women a year who are repeatedly victims of infanticide and the deprivation of healthcare. Now although there are no universal panaceas for female inequality, the consensus among academics and researchers is that educating women, investing in female businesses and fostering female participation in the

called in her book. The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a boy named Jonas who figures out that life is more than what is laid out for him. Infanticide isn't only a science fiction fantasy, it actually occurs in our world today. In Lois Lowry’s the Giver, a twin baby is killed which causes many readers to feel that this is unfair. Despite these opinions, infanticide occurs very frequently in our world today, still cruel and unfair at that. To

In the reading “In Defense of Abortion and Infanticide,” Michael Tooley argued why he thinks abortion as well as infanticide is ok. His main argument was that, “An entity cannot have a right to life unless it is capable of having an interest in its own continued existence.” He appealed to Joel Fienburg’s interest principle. Tooley says that a zygote cannot be spoken of as a subject of interest or have desires, therefore a zygote cannot have a right to life. While I agree that a zygote cannot have

Yoshino explores this idea early on in his self-identification process when he tries to kill off his "gay-self" through his poetry. He states, "the last poem, titled "The infanticide of My Professions" was about the selves we had to kill in young adulthood...This poem expressed the hope I would destroy the selves I only professed to be" (Yoshino 2006: 6). The notion of trying to make oneself less gay is not just something society demands of us, but something we often demand of ourselves at different

Right to life Michael Tooley, the author of ‘Abortion and Infanticide’, argues that an organism must possess certain properties to possess a right to life. He states that an organism possess a serious right to life only if it possess the concept of self as a continuing subject of experiences and other mental states, and believes that it itself is a continuing entity (p. 44). Furthermore, he argues that there are certain requirements to meet this claim. To say one only has a right to life if it possesses

Trinity College Dublin Infanticide in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ireland Life In Modern Ireland Kelsey Imler Dr. Wallace 18 November 2016 Infanticide is just what the name implies—a homicide, or murder, of an infant. For the purposes of this essay, the broadest definition of infanticide will be used to include the murder of all babies under the age of one year. Infanticide was a very complex, multifaceted and unfortunately common issue in the Republic of Ireland in the ninetieth