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Neonatal euthanasia: A claim for an immoral law
Active ending of the life of a newborn baby is a crime. Yet its clandestine practise is a reality in several European countries. In this paper, we defend the necessity to institute a proper legal frame for what we define as active neonatal euthanasia. The only legal attempt so far, the Dutch Groning...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3778983/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24068880 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477750913499494 |
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author | Eijnden, Serge Vanden Martinovici, Dana |
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description | Active ending of the life of a newborn baby is a crime. Yet its clandestine practise is a reality in several European countries. In this paper, we defend the necessity to institute a proper legal frame for what we define as active neonatal euthanasia. The only legal attempt so far, the Dutch Groningen protocol, is not satisfactory. We critically analyse this protocol, as well as several other clinical practises and philosophical stances. Furthermore, we have tried to integrate our opinions as clinicians into a law project, with the purpose of pinpointing several issues, specific of perinatality that should be addressed by such a law. In conclusion, we argue that the legalisation of neonatal euthanasia under exceptional circumstances is the only way to avoid all the “well-intentioned” malpractices associated with ending life at the very dawn of it. |
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spelling | pubmed-37789832013-09-23 Neonatal euthanasia: A claim for an immoral law Eijnden, Serge Vanden Martinovici, Dana Clin Ethics Empirical Ethics Active ending of the life of a newborn baby is a crime. Yet its clandestine practise is a reality in several European countries. In this paper, we defend the necessity to institute a proper legal frame for what we define as active neonatal euthanasia. The only legal attempt so far, the Dutch Groningen protocol, is not satisfactory. We critically analyse this protocol, as well as several other clinical practises and philosophical stances. Furthermore, we have tried to integrate our opinions as clinicians into a law project, with the purpose of pinpointing several issues, specific of perinatality that should be addressed by such a law. In conclusion, we argue that the legalisation of neonatal euthanasia under exceptional circumstances is the only way to avoid all the “well-intentioned” malpractices associated with ending life at the very dawn of it. SAGE Publications 2013-09-10 2013-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3778983/ /pubmed/24068880 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477750913499494 Text en © The Author(s) 2013 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Empirical Ethics Eijnden, Serge Vanden Martinovici, Dana Neonatal euthanasia: A claim for an immoral law |
title | Neonatal euthanasia: A claim for an immoral law |
title_full | Neonatal euthanasia: A claim for an immoral law |
title_fullStr | Neonatal euthanasia: A claim for an immoral law |
title_full_unstemmed | Neonatal euthanasia: A claim for an immoral law |
title_short | Neonatal euthanasia: A claim for an immoral law |
title_sort | neonatal euthanasia: a claim for an immoral law |
topic | Empirical Ethics |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3778983/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24068880 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477750913499494 |
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