Undoubtedly, the issue of neonatal euthanasia is a difficult jurisprudential, moral and social
issue." If there was ever a hard case for the law", says Professor Schneider of Michigan …

The paradox that medicine's success breeds medicine's problems is well known to readers
of the Journal of Medical Ethics. Advances in neonatal medicine have worked wonders. Not …

Holland's failure to sentence Henk Prins, a doctor who terminated the life of a profoundly
handicapped newborn baby based on the parents' consent, represents a step toward the …

The decision, whether to treat the 2000 severely impaired infants born each year in
Australia, where the intended outcome of such non-treatment is death, raises complex legal …

The authors have undertaken a study to explore the views in non-Western cultures about
ending the lives of newborns with genetic defects. This study consists of including active …

In response to arguments that the Dutch and UK approaches are indistinguishable, the
Doctrine of Double Effect (DODE) and the Acts and Omissions Doctrine (A/OD) are often …

In February 2014, the Belgian parliament passed an amendment to the Belgian Act on
Euthanasia of May 28th, 2002 removing the age limit of those requesting euthanasia …