Baby euthanasia plan urged
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Doctors in The Netherlands are calling for a domestic legal framework that would allow them to end the lives of new-born babies suffering unbearable pain from incurable diseases, a move that reopens the debate ...
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Pope Benedict XVI urged Catholic pharmacists on Monday to use conscientious objection to avoid dispensing drugs with "immoral purposes such as, for example, abortion or euthanasia."
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A commission of experts assembled by the Royal Dutch Medical Association on Thursday have called for a widening of the guidelines for allowing euthanasia in the Netherlands, to include mercy killings for ...
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Action Medical Research claims that babies' lives are being put at risk by a lack of government funding.
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Four doctors discuss whether euthanasia is an acceptable option in a disaster situation like Hurricane Katrina. In Bodyhack.
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A HOSPITAL in the Netherlands, the first country to legalise euthanasia, has broken the ultimate taboo and started to kill terminally ill and severely disabled babies.
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Health chiefs are considering a new jab to protect babies against bacterial meningitis, septicaemia and pneumonia.
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LONDON - A baby girl living in &quot;intolerable pain and suffering&quot; should be allowed to die, doctors said yesterday. Medical experts said even if 11-month-old Charlotte Wyatt survived another year, she would be severely disabled and need 24-hour care.
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A row is brewing over planned new laws which critics claim would allow euthanasia by the back door.
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KRT) - Four times in recent months, Dutch doctors have pumped lethal doses of drugs into newborns they believe are terminally ill, setting off a new phase in a growing European debate over when, if ever, it's ...
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Pope John Paul II condemned euthanasia Thursday, stressing that the elderly should be considered a valuable resource and not a burden to society, as the Vatican sought to mobilize public opinion against what is known as mercy killing.
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Vatican theologians are leaning toward revising centuries-old teaching that babies who die without baptism go to limbo instead of heaven, officials said Friday.
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THE parents of a desperately ill baby girl yesterday challenged at a High Court hearing the view by doctors caring for her that, should her condition worsen, she should be left to die.
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Doctors asked a High Court judge Thursday to rule whether they have to keep alive a seriously ill baby who has been in constant hospital care since her premature birth 11 months ago.
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The survival, rather than the rights, of  children must be the priority of UNICEF over the next decade  because 10 million children are dying every year -- many from  preventable causes, a medical journal said on Friday.
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PORTSMOUTH, ENGLAND - The British parents of a sickly premature infant are fighting a hospital in Portsmouth that has asked permission to not revive their baby if she again stops breathing.
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More than 10 million children under 5   years old die each year but two-thirds of those deaths could be   prevented with effective, cheap treatments that are already   available, health experts said on Monday.