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Neonaticide refers to the killing of a newborn, usually by the mother, before it is a day (or month by some definitions) old. From a 1997 Steven Pinker article in the New York Times article titled "Why they kill their newborns": "it's hard to maintain that neonaticide is an illness when we learn that it has been practiced and accepted in most cultures throughout history. And that neonaticidal women do not commonly show signs of psychopathology." In regards to the morality, he writes: "No, the right to life must come, the moral philosophers say, from morally significant traits that we humans happen to possess.... And there's the rub: our immature neonates don't possess these traits any more than mice do. " "It seems obvious that we need a clear boundary to confer personhood on a human being and grant it a right to life... To a biologist, birth is as arbitrary a milestone as any other."
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