In July of that year, a judge at an
infanticide trial in County Galway explained that
In villages, where gender determination tests are not available, female
infanticide is very prevalent.
This history of
infanticide in Ireland in the early twentieth century explores issues of gender, class and criminality in the context of a developing modern society.
The Ontario government, which has the authority to outlaw the practice of prenatal
infanticide in the province, is derelict in carrying out this duty.
The answer is provide by author and journalist Gita Aravamudan, in her book Disappearing Daughters (Penguin Books, 2007), which is based on her research from more than two decades of field investigations of female
infanticide and feticide in India.
L.B., www.canlii.org/en/on/onca/doc/2011/2011onca153/2011oncal53.html the question before the Court was: is
infanticide both an offence and a partial defence to a murder charge, or is it exclusively an offence that may, in some cases, be an included offence in a charge of murder to be considered if, and only if the Crown fails to prove murder?
Perhaps most distressing is the ordinariness of
infanticide. As dominance is passed from one leader to another in a group, the new dominant male will usually kill any members under a couple years of age so that the females will be able to conceive again, and more of the reigning males' genes will be passed on.
The final two chapters deal with
infanticide. Maguire has examined a large body of
infanticide cases tried in the Central Criminal Court and Circuit Courts.
In the fall, LEAF intervened in an appeal court trial to offer its feminist perspective on the ongoing relevance and importance of
infanticide as a homicide offence that is separate and distinct from murder.
BEHAVIORAL COUNTER-STRATEGIES AGAINST
INFANTICIDE IN CORN MOUSE FEMALES, Calomys musculinus
"Pregnancy denial acts in
infanticide cases much as a psychotic state that drives someone to kill another person does.
As the Whitley case demonstrates,
infanticide is not merely a