The Marginally Viable Newborn: Legal Challenges, Conceptual Inadequacies, and Reasonableness

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 34 (3):600-610 (2006)
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Decisions to provide life-sustaining medical care for marginally viable newborns present a unique set of morally complex challenges for providers and parents in the United States. This article examines recent legal trends that restrict discretionary decision-making, and critiques commonly employed ethical justifications offered to support permitting such discretion

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10.1111/j.1748-720x.2006.00074.x

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