SHOULD LIMBLESS BABY DIE?
Doctors refused to fall in with the wishes of a man who urged that his two-day-old deformed baby girl should be scientifically put to death, says a Chicago correspondent to the Sunday Times. The child, normal mentally, has neither arms nor legs, and the doctors say the father, James C. Lebrasea, begged that she “be allowed not to live.” The case of Baby Bollinger, scientifically allowed to die seven years ago after the late Dr. Harry Halsclden refused to perform an operation, was recalled. In the case of Lebrasca’s child, Dr. Benjamin IT. Breadstone, after a consultation with his colleagues, Drs. Mandel and Brownstein, ruled against the father’s appeal. “The child’s brain is normal —it may become a mental genius—we have no right to cause its death,” he said. “The deciding point is whether the child, if permitted to live, will be a burden on the community. Society should be required to step in and care for such a baby, attend to its wants and educate it.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2546, 22 February 1923, Page 1
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171SHOULD LIMBLESS BABY DIE? Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2546, 22 February 1923, Page 1
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