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Saturday, February 24, 2007

"Disabled newborns likely to face death"

"The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a leading British medical college, has called on the health profession to debate openly the active euthanasia of seriously disabled newborns, and the Church of England supports it. The college believes the emotional and financial burden placed on parents of disabled children is a valid reason to consider the "mercy killings.
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John Wyatt, a consultant neonatalologist at University College London hospital, said: "Once you introduce the possibility of intentional killing into medical practice, you change the fundamental nature of medicine."


Via OneNewsNow

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