Despite significant advances in neonatology, there will always be newborns with serious life-
threatening conditions creating most difficult bioethical dilemmas. Active euthanasia for adult …

The March 10 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine featured an article by two
Dutch doctors defining a" problem" and a" solution." Drs. Verhagen and Sauer announced …

The German Nazi regime has become a standard model for unspeakable things that one
should reject. Contemporary people will characterize political opponents, benighted …

In this paper, I defend the view that the requested euthanasia of adults is morally permissible
and should be legalised; I use an argument from analogy which compares physician …

The recent referendum to legalize voluntary, active euthanasia in Washington state, which
was narrowly defeated, has stimulated increased public discussion of this troubling ethical …

In dealing with an objection to the view of abortion presented in Chapter 6, we have already
looked beyond abortion to infanticide. In so doing we will have confirmed the suspicion of …

Regular readers of the Journal, and particularly of its Book Review Essays, may well
question why we review another book dealing with end-of-life issues, especially one by a …

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

In The Netherlands, neonatal euthanasia has become a legal option and the Groningen
Protocol contains an approach to identify situations in which neonatal euthanasia might be …