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Outrage as Church backs calls for severely disabled babies to be killed at birth
By NEIL SEARS
Last updated at 22:00pm on 12th November 2006
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NEWS HOMEPAGE
The Church of England has broken with tradition dogma by calling for doctors to be allowed to let sick newborn babies die.
Christians have long argued that life should preserved at all costs - but a bishop representing the national church has now sparked controversy by arguing that there are occasions when it is compassionate to leave a severely disabled child to die.
And the Bishop of Southwark, Tom Butler, who is the vice chair of the Church of England’s Mission and Public Affairs Council, has also argued that the high financial cost of keeping desperately ill babies alive should be a factor in life or death decisions.
The shock new policy from the church has caused outrage among the disabled.
More at www.dailymail.co.uk
By NEIL SEARS
Last updated at 22:00pm on 12th November 2006
Reader comments (31)
Bishop: Argued cost of keeping ill babies alive should factor in life or death choices
HeadlinesRetired soldier, 75, jailed for refusing to pay council tax
World’s first face transplant could go ‘horribly’ wrong
White middle class woman shunned after marrying Algerian terror suspect
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Abramovich rents entire wing of clinic for stress treatment
The Jacksons…or an everyday tale of two surgically obsessed siblings
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Curfews on late night lorries could be lifted to ease road congestion
Shamed professor ‘accused mother of hanging her son’
NEWS HOMEPAGE
The Church of England has broken with tradition dogma by calling for doctors to be allowed to let sick newborn babies die.
Christians have long argued that life should preserved at all costs - but a bishop representing the national church has now sparked controversy by arguing that there are occasions when it is compassionate to leave a severely disabled child to die.
And the Bishop of Southwark, Tom Butler, who is the vice chair of the Church of England’s Mission and Public Affairs Council, has also argued that the high financial cost of keeping desperately ill babies alive should be a factor in life or death decisions.
The shock new policy from the church has caused outrage among the disabled.
More at www.dailymail.co.uk
