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Analysis Of The Love Of My Life By Tc Boyle

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The story “The Love of my life” was written by TC Boyle, and it is about a young college couple who are about to have a baby and when they do they choose a darker path. Phillip Resnick is a Psychiatrist who did a study on those who commit neonaticide, he also coined the term neonaticide as the killing of a newborn within the first 24 hours. When Resnick was doing research, he found that the term infanticide was too broad so he split it into neonaticide as well as filicide which is killing a child older than one day after birth. Some philosophers argue that this should not be a crime and those who commit it should not be indicted and tried for murder. This is an incorrect and an uneducated argument that most philosophical experts do not agree with and neonaticide should indeed be treated as a serious crime. …show more content…

However, this argument doesn't hold up anymore as it was banned in the US in 2003 unless it is absolutely necessary to save the mother's life. This was still a practice that existed in America so why was neonaticide still considered a crime? Well, the answer is not really that complicated. A partial birth abortion is done by a medical professional and the baby is aborted in the most medically humane way possible. It is similar to the way that abortions are legal now in the United States, and abortions that are outside of the medical system are illegal. Whether or not an individual agrees or disagrees on this issue you cannot compare things that are different. neonaticide is indeed illegal and considered murder, rightfully so. However, it cannot be compared to a partial birth abortion for two reasons. The first being that it is a medical practice versus something that is not recognized by the medical system, and reason two being is that it is banned

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