... in great pain. Legally, the difference between active and passive euthanasia is the difference between "killing- and "allowing to die-; the first is punishable by the strictest penalties to be found in our legal system, while the second is not even a misdemeanor. Despite this tremendous legal distinction between active and passive euthanasia, however, doctors and philosophers such as James Rachels and ... to cause the death by a direct action than to allow it to happen from a treatable condition. In cases where a baby has been born with both Down's Syndrome and some other easily treatab...

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