Word: infantalizing
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...before California Superior Court Judge Richard Parslow, who broke new legal ground by awarding a test- tube baby to the genetic parents rather than to the surrogate mother. The woman had contracted to carry it for $10,000 and then changed her mind, saying she had "bonded" with the infant. "A three-parent, two-natural-mom situation is ripe for crazy-making," said Parslow. "I decline to split this child emotionally between two mothers...
Flynn asked the hospitals to take a more active role in providing prenatal and obstetric care, in an effort aimed at reducing the city's infant mortality rate...
...free-market reforms and defend fellow Russians against attacks by ethnic movements in far-flung Soviet republics. A construction worker with a high school education, he is a member of the Supreme Soviet and is on record as blaming the bureaucracy for the misery of workers' lives, food shortages, infant mortality and pollution. Conservatives have been attracted by his strong personality and persuasive public speaking. The Front claims that Gorbachev is dividing the society into rich and poor and that the workers are getting poorer. But the Front has not been successful in elections so far, and to redress...
...lines are cut into his neck, and tubes have been jammed up his nose and down his throat. Although $2,000 a day is being spent to keep this child alive, he will be permanently handicapped if he ever leaves the hospital. But it is unlikely that this infant will go home. "This baby is the dilemma," says Dr. Maureen Edwards, director of newborn services at the hospital. "You've started treatment, and there's no place to stop, and you're not going to save the baby...
Limiting treatment is already a common practice in Europe. In Sweden, if the outlook for a baby is uncertain or grim, doctors make no effort to save the infant, report the A.J.D.C. authors. In Britain treatment in most hospitals begins immediately on all viable newborns, but periodically the prospects are re-evaluated, and if severe brain damage or death seems likely, efforts are stopped. That decision is made after consulting with the infant's parents...