… for a severely handicapped newborn with serious, visible physical handicaps is based on
medical reasons, projections of problems that might result from that infant's handicaps, or upon …

… the aims of these philosophies … S felt that their first baby should have I)een “helped to
die.” They considered that much of the suffering … infants, our observations are similar …

… addressed the issue of severely handicapped neonates in … issue of treatment or nontreatment
for severely handicapped … normative theological/philosophical anthropology which seeks …

… individuals with emphasis on the most severely handicapped individuals. New … of these
issues on our professional decisions. Each of us must give studied attention to the philosophical …

… strains put upon a family with a severely handicapped child as well as the financial burdens
… letting a severely handicapped infant die. The authors illustrate these problems with several …

… In such a situation philosophical argument is powerless to … not some narrowly focused
philosophical argument but rather … issue raised by the treatment of severely handicapped infants' (…

… that "it is extremely difficult, on moral philosophical grounds, to draw … were treated differently
from nonhandicapped infants with … We shall not attempt to settle this issue here; however, we …

… issue in the previous decade,35 pro-life advocates found, in the issue of medical treatment
of handicapped newborns, a … However, if his philosophy were extended to this situation, a …

… three representative philosophical positions on the issue of … withheld from a severely
handicapped infant when that infant's life, … When used to decide when an infant is so severely …

… among other branches of applied philosophy and ethics. Since the issues it covers are ‘… We
do need to be careful of the words we use: “Everyone has heard of severely disabled people …