LONDON - Christian piety cover - in some cases - euthanasia. He says the Anglican Church, which for the first time opens the possibility if it is passive euthanasia of babies with very serious and irremediable handicap. He explains that it is possible that "there are situations where for a Christian compassion should prevail on the principle that life must be preserved at all costs."
The issue has again become highly topical in Britain a week ago, when a prestigious association of obstetricians and gynecologists British - the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists - proposed euthanasia (in some cases even active) for children who come to light with devastating disability and who are condemned to a life of great suffering and often vegetative.
gynecologists and obstetricians to the problem is not merely an abstract moral nature: the aggressive medical treatment to more or less desperate cases leads to a significant waste of valuable and limited resources that would be much more useful if diverted to the care of children healed. Then, surprisingly a prominent Anglican bishop, the Reverend Tom Butler, head of the diocese of Southwark, has done several of its concerns and recommendations of the Royal College, which has been accused by many to have a Nazi view of life and wish to delete your carrier disabilities.
In a letter to an independent commission on bioethics, which must act on this very delicate and controversial matters and to formulate new guidelines for doctors (the 'Nuffield Council on Bioethics'), the high priest says that "in some circumstances it may be right stop or remove a cure, knowing that it is possible, probable or certain that this will cause death. "
Bishop formula this approach does not personally, but on behalf of the Anglican church. Does not specify what the circumstances are 'exceptional' where you can practice passive euthanasia, but insists that the key decision to be taken "with reluctance" when all other avenues have been explored and discarded. What do babies with severe disabilities (usually it is premature) is a major concern in Britain because of a bitter court battle to keep alive a baby who is now three years, Charlotte Wyatt, born premature three months. At birth
Charlotte weighed just five hundred grams. Parents were able to keep it alive despite the negative opinion of doctors who would not do it at any price. Despite the great damage to the brain and lungs Charlotte has survived in a vegetative state and fed artificially. Meanwhile, the parents separated and left her daughter in the hospital for which you are now looking for a family willing to adoption. In the Netherlands, the European country where euthanasia is practiced more, children who are born with an advance of more than 25 weeks are left to die.
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