Dutch Euthanasia of Severely Ill Newborns

Author

sysadmin

Publish date

2nd June 2005

This week’s New England Journal carries a very well researched attack on the increasingly prominent practice in Holand of euthanasia involving newborns whose prognosis is grim.
[thanks Bob Baker; subscription required]

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