Impaired Children
In the past, I did not know about all the controversy surrounding impaired babies. I have always assumed that when a baby was born premature and with defects that the doctors did everything to help save it. All the mothers that I have known have all loved their babies and would be willing to do anything for their child. Although I knew there were some that did not want their children, I had assumed that the vast majority of parents would want to keep their baby, regardless of it being impaired. So the fact that so many babies were abandoned in France in 1833 was very surprising. I also did not know how often premature babies had an impairment. I knew that they were underweight and ...
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after all. In the Mueller case, twins were born conjoined at the trunk and shared three legs. When the parents decided to let them die, they were taken to court, where pediatric surgeons gave them a bleak prognosis, saying it was unlikely to have a successful separation. However, the twins lived for a year, and then went through surgery where one of them died. The Baby Jane case was much more controversial than others and hit nationwide news. When Baby Jane was born she had spina bifida, hydrocephalus, a damaged kidney, and microcephaly. Baby Jane needed surgery to drain the hydrocephalus in order to minimize retardation; however, George Newman, a pediatric neurologist, said that without the surgery she would die, but with it she would be paralyzed, retarded, and vulnerable continuously to infection of her bladder and bowels. Later in court he stated: “she is not likely to ever achieve any meaningful interaction with her environment, nor ever achieve any interpersonal ...
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division of New York courts, the justices sided with the parents, deciding the law left them with the decision. With this decision they completely ignored the fact that, given the evidence, the “medically reasonable option” would be to have surgery on Baby Jane. Then the federal government became involved, they came to get Baby Jane’s medical records. Dan and Linda did not want them to have them, claiming they had no business seeing them, since they were not family or doctors. The hospital refused to let the government have the medical records, claiming to be protecting the privacy of the family. The HHS turned it over to the Justice Department, filing suit against the hospital ...
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