T he issues surrounding the care of critically and terminally ill patients, including
handicapped newborns, have been the subject of numerous articles in Law?, Medicine t …

T he treatment of severely handicapped newborns was, for a long time, an issue of concern
only to medical practitioners and involved parents. Recently, however, it has drawn the …

The author criticizes the positions of the American Acadamy of Pediatrics, the court, and the
President's Commission on Medical and Biomedical and Behavioral research regarding the …

Approximately 30,000 severely handicapped infants are born in the United States each
year.'Some of these infants are born dying and medical technology cannot prevent death. 2 …

ON July 5 of this year, the Department of Health and Human Services issued proposed rules
to ensure that handicapped newborns, no matter how severe their handicaps, receive all …

We have just recently entered a new phase in the controversy about the medical treatment of
seriously impaired newborns. In October 1985 a new federal law went into effect which …

For many years there has been a national debate over the moral and legal obligations owed
to infants born with physical or mental disabilities. The crucial issue is, to what extent, if any …

After deliberation of the Baby Doe regulations issued in 1984, 1 the Supreme Court decided,
on June 9, 1986, that withholding treatment from handicapped infants when parents are in …

In recent years the federal government has attempted to intervene in certain family-medical
decisions to withhold treatment from seriously handicapped newborns with life-threatening …

Presented in question and answer format is information on Public Law 94-142 (Education for
All Handicapped Children Act) and Section 504 (the basic civil rights provision with respect …