2005
DOI: 10.1056/nejmp058026
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The Groningen Protocol — Euthanasia in Severely Ill Newborns

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“…These deficiencies and deformities are determined by doctors to be so life altering that the baby will never be able to live a normal life. 17 Many of these cases involve infants that have such abnormalities that there is no hope that the condition can be corrected. This reason for euthanizing these infants is to relieve suffering.…”
Section: Arguments For Moral Equivalence Between Killing and Letting Diementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…These deficiencies and deformities are determined by doctors to be so life altering that the baby will never be able to live a normal life. 17 Many of these cases involve infants that have such abnormalities that there is no hope that the condition can be corrected. This reason for euthanizing these infants is to relieve suffering.…”
Section: Arguments For Moral Equivalence Between Killing and Letting Diementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Some of these include reactions to feeding, heart rate, and crying. 17 The authors note that euthanasia has been legal in the Netherlands since 1985. However, this is only applicable to competent person over the age of sixteen.…”
Section: Arguments For Moral Equivalence Between Killing and Letting Diementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Minors without cognitive or motor ability to express and write their request are also excluded 12 . The law contrasts, therefore, with the Groningen Protocol 18 , a practice resorted to in the Netherlands and which results in active euthanasia, with parental consent, of a newborn with very severe prognosis or unbearable suffering 9,18 . Although parents have to agree with the request, the Belgian law also excludes ,undoubtedly, all requests by someone other than the patient , such as parents or professional health carers 9 .…”
Section: Euthanasia: the Belgian Casementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Outra referência bibliográfica citada pelos autores, e que poderia ser mais bem explorada, é a descrição de atitudes médicas no seguinte trecho: O Protocolo Groningen é defendido em diversos artigos tomando como exemplo as crianças nascidas com espinha bífida 21 -condição dramática e rara na qual há herniação de conteúdo meníngeo e/ ou encefálico na base da espinha, e que é tida por alguns como causadora de sofrimento insuportável e doença incompatível com um bom prognóstico.…”
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