Thursday, October 11, 2012

Baby bollinger

The baby Bollinger case, in 1915 a baby was born without a neck, one ear misshapen chest and shoulders and major malformations. The doctor who delivered the baby was Dr. harry haiseiden a surgeon; he concluded that this “defective” baby’s life would not be worth saving. He convinced the parents to let their son die. Dr. haiselden speculated that the mother had typhoid fever before the pregnancy and might have been a contributing factor and would let the baby die by injecting the baby with narcotics. Legally this is illegal because this is murder of a child but during this time it was justified. Scientific this baby back then was consider an abomination and they did have the kind of technology to help this child live. My idea or ethics in this situations, i think they should have tried to spare his life but again the year this baby was born i would not hold it againt anyone that they killed thw child.   

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