British Court Says Mom Can Legally End Her Daughter’s Life

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

First dehumanize and murder the unborn with abortion from the left and then work on the devaluing of people with disabilities young and old. This is a dream come true for government run health care that wants to limit who gets care because of the high costs. The slippery slope never ends.

“The disability-rights view properly cautions us that we should not discount the quality of life of people with disability. There is a real risk that we may leap to conclusions about quality of life that are not based on any real knowledge," said Joffe. “I take that message very seriously.”

Arthur Caplan is the director of medical ethics for NYU Langone Medical Center. In an interview with The Daily Beast, he said that he understood the concerns of disability-rights advocates and thought that it was important to have “guardrails” against slippery slopes. “These decisions should not be made in private, but with an ethics committee,” he said. It is highly unusual that a child is in severe, unremitting, inameliorable plain, he noted. “But if you consider the case of a child in severe pain, cognitively unable to understand that pain,” he said, “it might be ethical to pull all care, if that’s the only way to get pain under control.” He further suggested that rather than withdrawing hydration, he would be inclined to keep increasing pain medications even though doing so risks the patient’s ability to breathe. “I would be risking terminal pain medication,” he said. “The potential benefits outweigh the risk.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/04/u-k-courts-grant-mother-right-to-end-her-12-year-old-disabled-daughter-s-life.html

 

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[DrLeftover]

If human rights and laws and even life itself are Not a Gift From God, then why not?

 

[Nebulous]

What a nightmare for that poor mother and her daughter.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

If human rights and laws and even life itself are Not a Gift From God, then why not?

I'm a athiest and even I understand life and all you mention is a gift.

 

[Jazzy]

This is crossing a line. It's one thing to make your own decision to die. It's quite another to have the decision made for you in such an active manner—particularly if you are a minor child. Not to mention, this little girl's death must have been nothing short of excruciating. She died of dehydration and starvation, which is neither quick, nor painless. Her body was essentially eating itself from the inside as her organs shut down, one by one. I think her mom was just exhausted from the extensive, round-the-clock care her daughter required, and wanted to bury her daughter and move on with life. Honestly, it would have been better if they had just given her drugs to kill her, verses let her waste away for two or three weeks.