{"id":1568,"date":"2012-02-29T18:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2012-02-29T18:00:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T17:00:30","slug":"john-harris-clarifies-his-position-on-infanticide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2012\/02\/29\/john-harris-clarifies-his-position-on-infanticide\/","title":{"rendered":"John Harris Clarifies his Position on Infanticide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Harris writes in response to <a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2012\/02\/28\/liberals-are-disgusting-in-defence-of-the-publication-of-after-birth-abortion\/\">Julian&#8217;s post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I wish to clarify my position on infanticide to correct the impression that infanticide is something I defend or advocate.\u00a0 There is a big difference between an analysis of the moral symmetry of <em>some<\/em> abortions and <em>some<\/em> cases of infanticide on the one hand,\u00a0 and the defence of infanticide or indeed the advocacy of infanticide on the other. \u00a0I have always drawn a clear line between what I call &#8220;Green Papers&#8221; and &#8220;White Papers&#8221; in ethics.\u00a0 Green papers are intellectual discussions of the issues, white papers are policy proposals.\u00a0 I have never advocated or defended infanticide as a policy proposal.<\/p>\n<p>I would not and do not advocate the legalization of infanticide on the basis of any alleged\u00a0 ethical parity of infanticide with abortion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Harris writes in response to Julian&#8217;s post: I wish to clarify my position on infanticide to correct the impression that infanticide is something I defend or advocate.\u00a0 There is a big difference between an analysis of the moral symmetry of some abortions and some cases of infanticide on the one hand,\u00a0 and the defence [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2012\/02\/29\/john-harris-clarifies-his-position-on-infanticide\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}