Earlier this week, Republican lawmakers attempted to pass the "Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act," a bill they said was designed to combat infanticide and protect newborn babies following ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paris Mayo gave birth to her son Stanley alone – at home, in silence, while her parents and brother were upstairs. Mayo claimed ...

Postpartum mental disorder could be used as a legal defense for women who kill their children under a bill introduced in the Legislature. The bill was filed this month by Rep. Jessica Farrar, ...

A tragic infanticide at Foxconn's Devanahalli unit highlights critical gaps in mental health awareness, workplace support, ...

Saint Omer is a French film that picked up distinctions at the Venice International Film Festival and has hit wider distribution in the United States. It’s based on the story of Fabienne Kabou, a ...

An international team of scientists has shed light on cannibalism and infanticide carried out by primates, documenting these acts for the first time in the mustached tamarin (Saguinus mystax). The ...

A paper by two bioethicists arguing for “after-birth abortion” has stirred up a debate, to say the least (here’s an earlier post about it). I asked Peter Singer, a professor of bioethics at Princeton ...

"Routine" infanticide of newborns by married parents in early modern Europe was a much more widespread practice than previously thought, a new book posits. This fresh insight sits at the heart of a ...

Infanticide was carried out “routinely” by married parents in early modern Europe as a means of controlling resources and social status in Italy, France and England, according to a new book by a ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Anti-abortion activists accuse Obama of "supporting infanticide," and ...