… reciprocity, requires of an (moral) agent?" Other advocates for mandatory treatment of
severely handicapped newborns believe that many of these infants, with assistance, can develop …

… treatment from severely damaged infants: (a) infant’s … Issues in biomedical ethics arise
when there is a conflict between treasured values. In cases involving treatment of impaired infants…

… we seem on two central questions: who decides whether children born with severe … the US
President's Commission for the study of Ethical Problems in Medicine, which in its 1983 report …

… issue raises some of the most baffling ethical issues - issues discussed by 17 For one
example of the view that the killing of severely handicapped infants will pose a threat to severely …

… severely mentally retarded children in India will survive—with or without assistance. Children
… —among them society’s severely disabled members. Both utilitarianism and libertarianism …

… The intent of this article is to offer ethical implications that … of ethical and value questions
posed by this issue will help to maintain an openness to families of severely disabled infants. …

… to withhold treatment from such children so that they die slowly, … non-treatment of severely
handicapped children is morally … In a paper entitled 'Ethical problems in the management of …

… Abstract Survival and disability rates of extremely low birthweight infants have significantly
improved. Since it is impossible to give an accurate prognosis at the time of birth, all such live …

… withhold treatment from seriously handicapped newborns with life-… against "otherwise qualified
handicapped" individuals, the … with the ethical dilemmas in treating severely handicapped …

… moral value of the lives of infants with intellectual disabilities compared to infants without such
disabilities and especially the moral … questions: (1) Do infants with intellectual disabilities …