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Resolving arguments about the sanctity of life: a response to Long

P. Singer & H. Kuhse

Journal of Medical Ethics 14 (4):198-199 (1988)

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Should the Baby Live?: The Problem of Handicapped Infants.Helga Kuhse & Peter Singer - 1985 - Oxford University Press USA.details Few subjects have generated so many newspaper headlines and such heated controversy as the treatment, or non-treatment, of handicapped newborns. In 1982, the case of Baby Doe, a child born with Down's syndrome, stirred up a national debate in the United States, while in Britain a year earlier, Dr. Leonard Arthur stood trial for his decision to allow a baby with Down's syndrome to die. Government intervention and these recent legal battles accentuate the need for a reassessment of the complex (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 78 citations
Infanticide for handicapped infants: sometimes it's a metaphysical dispute.T. A. Long - 1988 - Journal of Medical Ethics 14 (2):79-81.details Since 1973 the practice of infanticide for some severely handicapped newborns has been receiving more open discussion and defence in the literature on medical ethics. A recent and important argument for the permissibility of infanticide relies crucially on a particular concept of personhood that excludes the theological. This paper attempts to show that the dispute between the proponents of infanticide and their religious opponents cannot be resolved because one side's perspective on the infant is shaped by a metaphysics that is (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations

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