One of the most perplexing dilemmas of modern medicine concerns whether" ordinary" 1
medical care justifiably can be withheld from defective newborns. Infants with malformations …

. if Euthanasia in the pediatric age group involves a constellation of issues that are materially
different from those of adult euthanasia. l The differ ence lies in the somewhat obvious fact …

Many people hold that there is an important moral distinction between passive euthanasia
and active euthanasia. Thus, while the AMA [American Medical Association] maintains that …

Drs. Eduard Verhagen and Pieter Sauer state that of the 200,000 children born in the
Netherlands every year, about 1000 die during the first year of life. For 600 of these infants …

Nontreatment of anomalous newborns is nothing new. In earlier times, nothing could be
done for infants who were premature or injured at birth, or who had genetic defects; they …

In the attempt to defend the principle that needs do make rights, it is possible to forget about
the range of needs which cannot be specified as rights and to let them slip out of the …