Secret baby killings trap doctors in moral maze
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Once a month on average somewhere in the Netherlands a doctor injects a newborn baby with a lethal cocktail of morphine and sedatives.
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In 2001, the Netherlands became the first (only?) country in the west to permit "mercy killings". The law only allows such killings in very particular circumstances - a doctor can terminate the life of a person who was in great pain and had no hope of recovery. In addition, the law requires the informed consent of the patient.   A hospital in the Netherlands has asked to dispense with that annoying part about consent - and the equally annoying part about pain.
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Dr. Frank Fisher's ordeal lingers as a cautionary tale of what can happen to doctors who treat pain aggressively.
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Infanticide and sex-selective abortion yield a more skewed gender ratio.
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The nation&#39;s fertility clinics vary widely when it comes to how they perform one of the most delicate aspects of their jobs: disposing of unused frozen human embryos that were created to help infertile women become
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Variations on identity theft that involve criminal records or medical histories give rise to their own special nightmares.
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In the complex, expensive and emotionally charged world of fertility treatment, doctors are sounding a call to arms to reverse the soaring rate of multiple births.
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There's an open secret in medicine: Patients lie.
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A grotesque crime in which a pregnant woman was murdered and her fetus snatched and adopted by another has been solved quickly, thanks to the enormous amount of electronic evidence the murderer left behind.
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The bizarre crime in which a pregnancy is feigned, a pregnant victim befriended and then killed for her unborn child is rare, but a remarkably similar pattern has been seen in a handful of cases
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All too often, the ring of Debi Faris-Cifelli&#39;s cell phone means there is another abandoned newborn at the morgue, another forsaken child for her to name and bury in a shoebox
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The announcement that British scientists have created an embryo containing the DNA of three people has bioethicists scratching their heads.
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A doctor's administration of drugs hastened the deaths of two babies and was "tantamount to euthanasia", an inquiry hears.
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Just hours after her second child was born, 19-year-old Helena Ferencikova&#039;s joy was dashed. In the recovery room, she discovered that the paper she had signed, not knowing what it said, had allowed doctors to sterilize her.
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An inquiry hears a doctor gave a massive dose of a drug to two terminally ill babies, hastening their deaths.
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An 8-month-old fetus - savagely ripped from her mother&#39;s womb while the woman was being murdered â-urned up alive and healthy yesterday in Kansas, where police arrested a woman for kidnapping the newborn.
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The BBC has video evidence to suggest new-born babies in Ukraine may have been killed to feed the stem cell trade.