Ethical issues are examined that involve withholding medical treatment from severely
handicapped infants. Although current laws do not sanction euthanasia, severely …

Severely handicapped newborns often require life-sustaining medical treatment immediately
after birth. Recent reports have indicated that parents and/or physicians occasionally decide …

• In May of 1981, Siamese twins were born to a physician and his wife in Danville, Illinois."
The infants, joined below the waist, were denied medical treatment and nourishment by …

The subject is approached from the standpoint of the debates and events of the" Baby Doe
era," from 1982 to 1985. Historic episodes of mass infanticide and practices in other cultures …

States is comprised of infants who have multiple congenital anomalies. An additional 7
percent of live births, or 230,000 infants, weigh 2500 grams or less at birth and sustain high …

This dissertation attempts to answer the question: ON WHAT BASIS IS IT ETHICAL TO
FOREGO OR CEASE TREATMENT OF A HANDICAPPED INFANT? A survey of the literature …

The main purpose of this paper (1) is to draw attention to a gap between the principles of
Common Law and the principles accepted by many leading medical practitioners on the …

The recent increase in reporting of passive euthanasia of defective newborn infants has not
been accompanied by extensive analysis of the legality of the practice or the …

THE PURPOSE OF THIS ARTICLE IS TO EXAMINE THE ethical questions a) of letting
defective newboms die by omitting or withdrawing their treatment, and b) of terminating their …

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 …