To: Yaelle; Cathy; topher
As long as --- as you said --- nobody is killing the child deliberately, I can't think there would be
any moral or legal objection to giving a dying child the morphine doses necessary to stop the pain. Even if a (forseeable, but unintended) side effect is to reduce respiratory efficiency.
Actually intending to kill the child, is a different matter altogether.
28 posted on
03/31/2010 4:42:42 PM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
(What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God)
To: Mrs. Don-o
34 posted on
03/31/2010 9:33:18 PM PDT by
Yaelle
To: Mrs. Don-o
All drugs have side effects. Morphine can kill you if you increase the dose to the point that your respirations are too shallow and too few each minute.
What medicine has done today is allow the patient to medicate themselves by "pressing a button". The dose they receive of morphine is a safe dose, and even if the patient presses the button again and again, it will only dispense medications to a "prescribed" schedule and a "prescribed" dose.
The article specifically says that there are parents who wish to directly end the children's lives...
35 posted on
04/01/2010 12:46:02 AM PDT by
topher
(Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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