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Interesting, don't you think?


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article625477.ece


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ONE of Britain’s royal medical colleges is calling on the health profession to consider permitting the euthanasia of seriously disabled newborn babies. 

The proposal by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology is a reaction to the number of such children surviving because of medical advances. The college is arguing that “active euthanasia” should be considered for the overall good of families, to spare parents the emotional burden and financial hardship of bringing up the sickest babies. 


http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/051mi013.html


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In a well known trial, a Dr. Arthur in U. K. had prescribed an overdose of codeine to a baby with Down syndrome with the object of hastening his death Dr. Arthur was charged with murder. Many eminent witnesses were tried. Most of them justified the procedure. Finally the court acquitted Dr. Arthur as his motive was compassion. There is an argument that if a foetus is found to be abnormal and severely handicapped it should be eliminated before birth as such children are socially valueless.


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