Abortion is legal in many states for full-term pregnancies.
The difference between infanticide and late-term abortion is a question of whether you kill the baby while it is at least partially inside the mother, or you kill the baby after it is completely outside of the mother. A botched late-term abortion means the baby is born alive.
Maximizing preventable death is the primary purpose of abortions.
There is no debate that the primary purpose of abortion is to kill unborn life. The question is when the victims have human rights.
That is demonstrated by this classic debate between Senator Santorum and Senator Boxer:
Santorum asks:
“You agree, once a child is born, is separated from the mother, that that child is protected by the Constitution and cannot be killed? Do you agree with that?”
Yes, and as Senator Boxer demonstrated even birth is not enough to guarantee rights even though the 14th amendment says that all persons born in the US are citizens.
Of course, that’s not what I was referring to. The context of this thread and of the discussion I was responding to is abortion. In fact, the situation you raised shows the cultural schizophrenia we hold when it comes to abortion. The foundational factor of whether or not the human rights of the baby should be recognized rests on nothing more than whether or not the mother wants the child. It’s the same human life, even if the mother changes her mind. And that decision holds the life or death of that baby in the balance.