Standards, Norms, and Guidelines for Permissible Withdrawal of Life Support From Seriously Compromised Newborns

Morreim, E. Haavi

doi:10.1080/15265161.2010.540064

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“…115 In 2018, it is axiomatic that parental reluctance to care for a disabled baby is not grounds for withholding treatment from a child. 116 It is, of course, true that in some other cultures, infanticide was practised regularly and with impunity, 117 but this does not establish some essential truth about the value of early human life. Insofar as infanticide continues to be treated as a lesser criminal offence, 118 it could be argued that this is more plausibly grounded in an understanding of post-partum psychosis and its implications for the mens rea of murder, rather than because the killing of newborn babies is sanctioned by society.…”

Section: The Significance Of Birthmentioning

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Too Expensive to Treat? Non-Treatment Decisions at the Margins of Viability

Flessas

Jackson

2018

Medical Law Review

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This article seeks to challenge the assumption that it is legitimate to consider the costs of premature babies’ future social and educational needs when deciding what treatment, if any, to provide in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) . It questions the elision that is made between the claim that a particular treatment is insufficiently cost-effective and the claim that a person will be a burden on the state in the future. It discusses a series of common misunderstandings about how treatment decisions are taken in the NICU and concludes by suggesting that the claim that premature babies are too expensive to treat may depend upon regarding a premature infant as if she were not yet a person, with rights and interests of her own.

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Section: The Significance Of Birthmentioning

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Too Expensive to Treat? Non-Treatment Decisions at the Margins of Viability

Flessas

Jackson

2018

Medical Law Review

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“…Furthermore, research has shown that people with a certain disease or handicap assess their own quality of life more positively than the parents and physicians did at the time of their birth, which puts the interpretation of parents and physicians of the baby's quality of life into perspective. Hence, the parents and care providers can not rely on the principle of respect for autonomy in order to find a legitimation to actively terminate the life of a severely ill newborn (Paris 2011;Kodish 2008;Kon 2007;Raadgevend Comité 1999;Sporken 1988). The principle of relational autonomy does imply, however, that the parents and care providers are responsible for the severely ill newborn and have to take decisions, which enhance the baby's wellbeing as much as possible.…”

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From Birth to Death? A Personalist Approach to End-of-Life Care of Severely Ill Newborns

Gastmans¹,

Naulaers²,

Vanhole³

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Christian Bioethics

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In this paper, a personalist ethical perspective on end-of-life care of severely ill newborns is presented, by posing two questions. (1) Is it ethically justified to decide not to start or to withdraw life-sustaining treatment in severely ill newborns? And (2), is it ethically justified, in exceptional cases, to actively terminate the life of severely ill newborns?Based on five valuesrespect for life and for the dignity of the human person, quality of life, respect for the process of dying, relational autonomy, and justicean ethical assessment is conducted that brings us to an answer to the two ethical questions. (1) Noninitiation or withdrawal of life-sustaining medical treatment in severely ill newborns is ethically acceptable, and might even be a moral duty, when initiation or continuing of medical treatment can be considered as futile or even harmful. (2) However, according to the personalist approach, it is not ethically acceptable to actively terminate the life of a severely ill newborn.

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Dutch Protocols for Deliberately Ending the Life of Newborns: A Defence

Tedesco

2017

Bioethical Inquiry

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The Groningen Protocol, introduced in the Netherlands in 2005 and accompanied by revised guidelines published in a report commissioned by the Royal Dutch Medical Association in 2014, specifies conditions under which the lives of severely ill newborns may be deliberately ended. Its publication came four years after the Netherlands became the first nation to legalize the voluntary active euthanasia of adults, and the Netherlands remains the only country to offer a pathway to protecting physicians who might engage in deliberately ending the life of a newborn (DELN). In this paper, I offer two lines of argument. The first is a positive argument for the Protocol, grounded in the good of the newborn as unanimously determined by those in a position to determine it. The second addresses the widely shared belief that the killing of newborns is morally prohibited, where I offer two arguments-one grounded in the fact that the kinds of cases the Protocol is meant to govern are very rare and highly unusual, and the other focused more broadly on the role of pre-theoretical beliefs in moral reasoning-meant to undermine the strong role that the critic of the Protocol affords this belief. I argue that, given this second line of argument, the beliefs underlying my positive argument for the Protocol are in fact more secure than the widely shared belief underlying the critic's position.

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Standards, Norms, and Guidelines for Permissible Withdrawal of Life Support From Seriously Compromised Newborns

Cited by 4 publications

References 8 publications

Too Expensive to Treat? Non-Treatment Decisions at the Margins of Viability

Too Expensive to Treat? Non-Treatment Decisions at the Margins of Viability

From Birth to Death? A Personalist Approach to End-of-Life Care of Severely Ill Newborns

Dutch Protocols for Deliberately Ending the Life of Newborns: A Defence

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