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 …

T he dilemma surround-ing the issue of infanticide of severely defec-tive infants has arisen
because of medical advances over the past quarter century or so which allow physicians to …

R McMillan, HR Engelhardt, S Spicker, editors, 313 pages, Netherlands,£ 42.75, Kluwer
Academic Publishing Group, 1987 This thought-provoking book is a collection of essays …

Advances in medical technology, discoveries in pharmacology, and developments in bio-
engineering have made it possible for the modem physician to save and/or sustain the lives …

The ethical debate aside, at law, the moment the child has an existence separate from his
mother, the moment he has independent circulation, even though the afterbirth may not yet …

R McMillan, HR Engelhardt, S Spicker, editors, 313 pages, Netherlands,£ 42.75, Kluwer
Academic Publishing Group, 1987 This thought-provoking book is a collection of essays …

The birth of a normal child is an event full of happiness and joy for its ftmily, yet the birth of a
handicapped baby can be a terrible human tragedy, since it entails difficult problems to be …

Many people felt that the 1967 Abortion Act would be the thin end of a long and serious
wedge-the worry was that once society accepts that it is both morally and legally right to …

It has been said that"[t] he law always lags behind the most advanced thinking in every area.
It must wait until the theologians and the moral leaders and events have created some …

The laws that could culminate in criminal liability for the proper administration of euthanasia
to a severely defective child share one common and basic premise with much of early …