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Gregory K. Laughlin on the Wrong Choices Given to Parents of Disabled Children
On August 4, 2013, the New York Times published an article by Dr. April R. Dworetz titled "End of Life, at Birth." Dr. Dworetz is an assistant professor of pediatrics, specializing in neonatology, at Emory University. She used the account of a girl who was born "at 23 weeks' gestation and weighed a little over a pound" to address the larger issue of when to resuscitate and treat infants born prematurely, particularly when, as in the case of the girl she called "Miracle," the prognosis for survival is "bl . . .
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on the Misuse of Property Rights to Justify Slavery & Abortion by Robert Hart
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