Aquilla and jFrog,
How do you feel about Child Euthanasia for those gravely ill and those suffering from significant birth defects? If you are aggressively in favor of leaving the option open (like abortion), do you feel it should be legal only with parental consent or even in the absence of parental consent?
"Child euthanasia is a controversial form of non-voluntary euthanasia that is applied to children who are gravely ill or suffer from significant birth defects.
Some critics[who?] have compared child euthanasia to infanticide. Others, such as Joseph Fletcher, founder of situational ethics and a euthanasia proponent, proposed that infanticide be permitted in cases of severe birth defects. Fletcher says that unlike the sort of infanticide perpetrated by very disturbed people, in such cases child euthanasia could be considered humane; a logical and acceptable extension of abortion.[1] American bioethicist Jacob M. Appel goes one step further, arguing that pediatric euthanasia may be ethical even in the absence of parental consent.[2]
Legalization may also have the added benefit of reducing abortion (if that is a positive)
"having these options would save some families from years of emotional and financial suffering; it might also reduce the number of late abortions, "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_euthanasia
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