This paper is based partly on research supported by the Program on Human Values and Ethics at the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences at Memphis and the National Endowment for the Humanities, grant #Fd-32672-78-652.
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For a neo-Kantian theoretical framework which ascribes to infants the status of moral persons, see RawlsJohnA Theory of Justice (Harvard University Press, 1971) pp. 505–510. For an application of the principles of a liberal society to the care of newborns see Germain Grisez and Joseph M. Boyle, Jr., Life and Death with Liberty and Justice (University of Notre Dame Press, 1979).
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Reprinted in The Pope Speaks, Vol. 4 (1958), pp. 383–398.
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Recently reprinted in a report of th President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research entitled Deciding to Forego Life-Sustaining Treatment: Ethical, Medical, and Legal Issues in Treatment Decisions (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983), pp. 300–7.
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Federal Register, Vol. 48, No. 129 (July 5, 1983), pp. 30846–30852, p. 30846.
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Federal Register, Vol. 48, No. 129 (July 5, 1983), pp. 30846–30852, p. 30846.
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Federal Register, Vol. 49, No. 8 (Jan, 12, 1984), pp. 1622–1654, p. 1630.
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Federal Register, Vol. 49, No. 8 (Jan, 12, 1984), pp. 1622–1654, p. 1630.
