The right to die movement says that living wills will make these court cases go away, but there are many, many infants being left to die of neglect by their parents.
The issue is this. If the infant did not have a defect, the courts would step in and stop the imposed death. We are allowing the killing of infants with defects the parents consider unacceptable for quality of life, but would never allow this for an infant who is not "defective".
Recently in Canada a father took his 11 year old daughter into the garage and killed her by running a pipe from the truck into the back seat. The child had cerebral palsy. The outpouring of support for the father was enormous. Most people seemed to believe that the father had done a merciful thing. (Latimer case)
Dick Sobsey says that the killing of children by their parents has since increased enormously, reaching a proportion never before seen in Canada. It is becoming acceptable to euthanize your own children.
Do we then continue to allow parents and doctors to make their own, highly biased decisions about life and death for others? This is family rights?
A recent well-done study proved that doctors make decisions for patients based on their own personal beliefs, and that the decisions made are highly subjective.
One could easily speculate that if you are of a political or religious group that your physician finds objectionable, options for returning to health will not be offered to you.
GOD HELP US!!!!!!!!!!
"Age and the extent of organ damage used to be the two most important criteria in determining who in an intensive care unit would be kept on life support and who would not."