Letter from Judie Brown, American Life Lobby to C. Everett Koop

Letter from Judie Brown, American Life Lobby to C. Everett Koop

Contributor(s):
American Life Lobby
Brown, Judie
Koop, Charles Everett, 1916-2013
Publication:
Produced: 23 June 1982
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Ethics, Medical
Refusal to Treat
Spinal Dysraphism
Genre(s):
Archival Materials
Letters (correspondence)
Abstract:
Earlier, in April 1982, Koop had become involved in a medical, ethical, and legal controversy over the denial of medical treatment to babies born with disabling birth defects, the so-called "Baby Doe" controversy. Over the next two years, media reports of similar cases in which parents chose to withhold medical treatment from their severely disabled newborns, including cases of children with spina bifida (a defective closure of the spinal cord, leading to paralysis of varying degree) such as the one referred to in this letter, led the U.S. Congress to amend federal child abuse laws to include such denial of treatment.
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Extent:
1 pages
NLM Unique ID:
101584930X558 (See in Profiles in Science)
Profiles in Science ID:
QQBCJH
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584930X558
Archival Collection:
The C. Everett Koop Papers (Profiles in Science)