In light of controversy surrounding the initial online publication of Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva's article on 'After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?' in the Journal of Medical Ethics,1 we invited all regular and honorary staff members of the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University in Melbourne (where Giubilini works as a tutor) to write short commentaries summarising their views on the moral status of early human lives for publication in a special symposium in the journal Monash Bioethics Review (which we co-edit). Our motivation was to illustrate the diversity of views about such matters held by the Centre's members and, more generally, among contemporary secular philosophical bioethidsts. Our 'Symposium on 'after-birth abortion" was published in March 2012—and is freely available in full at http://journals. publishing.monash.edu/ojs/index.php/mber/ issue/view/40/showToc.
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