Gould 0738 wrote:
Was done lots years ago. Baby born without a brain, the doctors put the
baby to the side and let them die. Some nurse complained, and now
$10,000,000 and the baby dies in a month. Same with other unsurvivable
babies.



My brainy daughter's first master's degree was in medical ethics. Fascinating
field that often deals with scenarios much like you describe. More major
hospitals are adding medical ethicists to saff. There's a difference between a
baby born without a brain that has *zero* potential for survival, and deciding
to off poor sick granny because the creditors are hounding and the inheritance
would solve a lot of problems.


I heard an interview this morning with the head pediatric doctor at the
facility that euthanized the babies. They've done four so far, and if I
heard correctly, they were all born with painful, untreatable, fatal
spinal injuries, so, in consultation with the parents, the doctors
helped the babies on to their Creator.

We have a really pooched sense of "morality" in this country...most of
the loonies running around trying to prevent abortions are the same
people who don't give a tinker's dam about the millions of
underprivileged kids trying to achieve a decent life in this country.