Should Courts or Ethics Committees Decide “Futile” Care Cases?

Thursday, August 19, 2010
Wesley J. Smith

Longtime readers of SHS and those who have read my books and other writings, know I oppose legalizing futile care theory. Futile care theory would permit bioethics committees or doctors to refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment based on quality of life and/or resource husbanding purposes (as opposed to being physiologically useless).

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