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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MOST OF US the term "infanticide" is an anachronism. Except perhaps for the few widely publicized sensational tales of psychotic parents or arrant child molesters murdering helpless children, the term connotes the second most common pre-twentieth century method of birth control. (The first, of course, was celibacy...
...practice is a sort of selective method of birth control. And it is not so illegal at that. Nobody knows for sure how many deformed or "undesirable" newborn infants conveniently "die" immediately after birth...
INFANTICIDE, THEN, represents a more certain method of selective birth control than the combined pre-natal actions, anmiocentesis and abortion. The parents can see their creation and decide whether it is worth keeping. However, this infanticide, an example of euthenasia, is at present deemed criminal homicide, despite the motive of mercy. Most legal experts dispel claims that passivity is not as culpable as a positive act of murder. They contend inaction is tantamount to action when there is a duty to act, and most moralists would agree...
...Some others are as blatantly obvious as still others are oblique. While revised state laws and a Supreme Court ruling have legitimized the distribution of most contraceptive devices to most women and cleared the way for safe and legal abortion, infanticide remains a simple and sometimes not so illegal method of selective birth control...
...also should look closely at the local political scene within the City at that time. The Office o Economic Opportunity and its various committees formed an ingenious method of measuring variations of low-income reactions and alternatives...