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. ... In cases where a baby has been born with both Down's Syndrome and some other easily treatable condition, he argues, doctors and parents often refuse to treat the secondary condition so that the baby will die and not grow up with a serious birth defect "an alternative not available to other Down's Syndrome children who are born w...

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