Force Majeure (Legal Necessity): Justification for Active Termination of Life in the Case of Severely Handicapped Newborns after Forgoing Treatment

The health of newborns has always been subject to the natural lottery. When in the past a severely disabled baby was born, nature provided the “solution,” and the child did not survive. Medical technology has brought about a change; fetuses who would have died during pregnancy or newborns who once w...

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Authors: Leenen, H. J. J. (Author) ; Ciesielski-Carlucci, Chris (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1993
In: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 1993, Volume: 2, Issue: 3, Pages: 271-274
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