12:45:06 This is Biomedical Ethics. I am Professor Philip Pickering up into this video is infanticide fantasized is the topic in the medical ethics course.
12:45:22 Because, for a variety of situations, which instance come into this world and people perceive a challenge request the probe the nature of the child questions arise as to whether or how much assistance, should be given to the child to help it to live.
12:45:43 And normally any child born is going to receive everything possible to support its life, and its prosperity.
12:45:54 There are times when that doesn't appear to be so obvious and goal with the particular child that's born.
12:46:04 So, questions arise, and what those questions.
12:46:09 The moral issue, what is the right thing to do the morally correct thing to do.
12:46:14 But we're talking about in this module is children, infants who are put to death.
12:46:24 Kill, say, killing.
12:46:31 For a variety of reasons.
12:46:31 For a variety of reasons. One is abnormalities that can range from very very slight to very very severe.
12:46:44 Children are sometimes left to die. And in some cases, things are done to hasten their death due to the condition in which they enter the world being thought to be one either just simply undesirable to live under those circumstances.
12:46:56 Or, which it would be easier to end.
12:47:00 At the beginning of life, rather than try to sustain life without, perhaps, close to a normal lifespan.
12:47:07 It has led in some instances to lawmakers wanting to have a law, where if a child is born alive. It must be protection for each and every search child.
12:47:19 Switch lowers are not usually successful because of the circumstances that present exceptions to the normal idea of saving a life supporting the life of every child.
12:47:35 Foreign away though the most popular reason in the world for newborns infants being put to death has nothing to do with an abnormality or any kind of physical condition.
12:47:47 It's simply because the child is unwanted.
12:47:53 And it's unwanted because it is a female. So around the world, you'll see, if you look into it, that there are hundreds of thousands and more likely millions of female influence for not sustain that time with their removal from the womb of their mother,
12:48:14 because it is a female birth.
12:48:10 In some countries with advancing technology available in in utero diagnosis can be performed and if it's a female fetus it will be aborted rather than having to turn.
12:48:31 But there are other circumstances in which infants are put to death.
12:48:32 One having nothing to do with the infant, is the mother, who may be under the stress of some illness or what is referred to sometimes as a postpartum depression, severe case of the nickname baby booths, where the mother will put the child to death and
12:48:52 then the question becomes, bunch of legal culpability medical aspect is whether in the condition actually exists and is one that would be to such a severe outcome.
12:49:08 Aside from the mental illness know the modem or the sex of the newborn.
12:49:13 There are these other conditions stream premature birth would be one where the infant requires numerous things in order to sustain it in the hopes that it will have a normal development at some point.
12:49:30 And then there are occasions in human history and probably even now, somewhere on the planet where newborn babies are being put to death, even though they're perfectly healthy because of their ethnicity or race or religion.
12:49:47 There have been such times when babies have been put to death for those reasons, question is whether or not.
12:49:59 Any members of the medical profession should be involved in assisting and search.
12:50:06 And finally decides.
12:50:07 Then there are the cases of those mentioned before with severe abnormalities at the time of birth, were sustaining their lives require a variety of treatments and support.
12:50:19 So many in under circumstances that do not offer great hope of a recovery, or a journey towards a healthy set of circumstances for the developing child that people consider efforts to sustain the child as best as possible to to day kind of torture.
12:50:45 Now, it's far better to have allowed the child to die, or even to have assisted the child to end its life, rather than to continue variety of treatments for longing that life under really highly undesirable circumstances of intense support structures,
12:51:08 requiring advances in technology and medicine.
12:51:15 One of the cases of infanticide involves a newborn infant, that would be not sustained, its life, or even hasten is that right if the birth, because of the severe physical deformity.
12:51:33 This raises the question of how the form does a child have to be in order to reach a conclusion, that is better off dead and to live amongst sort of human beings, that would be making the decision about whether the child is better.
12:51:52 So there were a variety of circumstances that prompt the question What is the correct thing to do, what is the moral thing to do.
12:51:59 What is the good thing to do, applying different ethical principles to those situations will support different moral judgments.