[TaxRelief]

"Measures that might marginally extend a child's life by minutes or hours or days or weeks are stopped. This happens routinely, namely, every day," said Lance Stell, professor of medical ethics at Davidson College and staff ethicist at Carolinas Medical Center in the United States. "Everybody knows that it happens, but there's a lot of hypocrisy. Instead, people talk about things they're not going to do."

Specifically, he is referring to FEEDING and HYDRATING kids. "Damaged" kids are starved to death regularly.

[AnAmericanMother]

Ooops, a good reason to reconsider Davidson College as a destination for my firstborn . . .

(We'd already pretty much ruled out Princeton, my alma mater and home of the infamous Singer.)

Tell me there are no crazies like this at Washington & Lee! Please!

[William of Orange]

Specifically, he is referring to FEEDING and HYDRATING kids. "Damaged" kids are starved to death regularly.

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and they call it "let nature take it's course".

[reaganaut]

Specifically, he is referring to FEEDING and HYDRATING kids. "Damaged" kids are starved to death regularly

Exactly, even here in America. When I was born in the early 1970's, I had a cleft-lip and palate and some hearing loss. The doctors kept telling my mother to discontinue feeding me and let me die, because if I lived I would be so severely mentally retarded that I would "be a burden to society." My father was convinced to let them starve me to death, but my mother refused and my plastic surgeon backed her up. He even told my mother "If you don't want the responsibility, don't kill her, let me adopt her." Of course my mother didn't want to give me up, but his comments showed that he loved me more than my father did. My parents divorced a few years later. BTW, I'm finishing my MA degree and start my PhD next year in Ancient History, I'm fluent in several languages and my wonderful husband is certainly glad the doctors didn't have the final say. This kind of thing angers me beyond all sense of reasonableness.