One Advocate's Viewpoint: Conflicts and Tensions in the Baby K Case
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
- Vol. 23 (1), 7-12
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.1995.tb01323.x
Abstract
What was really going on in the Baby K case? Many people have posed that or similar questions to me when I have been introduced as the attorney for Baby K's mother. In a nutshell, the courts in Baby K ruled that a hospital is required to provide emergency medical care to an anencephalic baby at the mother's request. In this paper, I provide some insights into the factors that underlie the litigation and the legal issues decided by the courts. In my view, this case involved a myriad of legal questions, religious principles, power struggles, and health care resources arguments that could arise in other contexts.Keywords
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