• J Law Med Ethics · Jan 2006

    The marginally viable newborn: legal challenges, conceptual inadequacies, and reasonableness.

    • Sadath A Sayeed.
    • Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, UC San Francisco, USA.
    • J Law Med Ethics. 2006 Jan 1;34(3):600-10, 481.

    AbstractDecisions to provide life-sustaining medical care for marginally viable newborns present a unique set of morally complex challenges for providers and parents in the United States. This article examines recent legal trends that restrict discretionary decision-making, and critiques commonly employed ethical justifications offered to support permitting such discretion.

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