Editing Infanticide (section)

=== Sex education and birth control ===
Since infanticide, especially neonaticide, is often a response to an unwanted birth,<ref name=Marks2009/> preventing [[unwanted pregnancies]] through improved [[sex education]] and increased [[birth control|contraceptive]] access are advocated as ways of preventing infanticide.<ref name=Friedman2009>{{cite journal |vauthors=Friedman SH, Resnick PJ |title=Neonaticide: Phenomenology and considerations for prevention |journal=Int J Law Psychiatry |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=43–47 |year=2009 |pmid=19064290 |doi=10.1016/j.ijlp.2008.11.006 }}</ref> Increased use of contraceptives and access to safe legal [[abortion]]s<ref name="Hardness" /><ref name=Paul/>{{rp|122–23}} have greatly reduced neonaticide in many developed nations. In Pakistan, advocates of legalizing abortion say it would reduce infanticide and save mothers from potentially fatal back-street terminations.<ref name =tribune />