Should Pediatric Euthanasia be Legalized?

Marije Brouwer, Christopher Kaczor, Margaret P Battin, Els Maeckelberghe, John D Lantos, Eduard Verhagen

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Abstract

Voluntary active euthanasia for adults at their explicit request has been legal in Belgium and the Netherlands since 2002. In those countries, acceptance of the practice for adults has been followed by acceptance of the practice for children. Opponents of euthanasia see this as a dangerous slippery slope. Proponents argue that euthanasia is sometimes ethically appropriate for minors and that, with proper safeguards, it should be legally available in appropriate circumstances for patients at any age. In this Ethics Rounds, we asked philosophers from the United States and the Netherlands, and a Dutch pediatrician, to discuss the ethics of legalizing euthanasia for children.

Original languageEnglish
Article number20171343
Number of pages5
JournalPediatrics
Volume141
Issue number2
Early online date9-Jan-2018
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Feb-2018

Keywords

  • LIFE
  • END

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