Swervie, you already know that my hubby is a physician, but Resty, I don't think you know. He has told me tales of what has happened at times when he was in medical school and doing ob/gyn rotations. When a baby was born that had profound disabilities, usually genetic, they were not treated if there was no hope of the child living any period of time. That is, if the deformities were so severe, that the only way for the baby to live would be through extraordinary means like life support, and if the prognosis were grim, as in no hope for survival, then no treatment would be undertaken. The baby would be allowed to die naturally. He never said that any of them were helped to die, but neither were any heroics undertaken when there was no hope for the baby to survive. I don't find that to be an immoral act.
I was not referring to terminal cases I was thinking on the terms of being deformed or downs syndrom etc