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Título: Non-treatment of Severely Disabled Newborns and Criminal Liability Under Spanish Law1
Autores/as: Romeo Malanda, Sergio 
Clasificación UNESCO: 32 Ciencias médicas
56 Ciencias jurídicas y derecho
Palabras clave: Neonaticide
Severe disability
Withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment
Spanish criminal law
Viability
Fecha de publicación: 2009
Publicación seriada: The Criminal Justice System and Health Care
Resumen: This chapter examines whether medical professionals in Spain can be held criminally responsible if they withdraw life-sustaining treatment from severely disabled newborn babies. The focus on the Spanish jurisdiction is significant, since, in contrast to the legal position in the UK, the USA, Australia, and elsewhere, the position under Spanish law is currently much more ambiguous. Thus, medical professionals faced with making the decision of whether to discontinue medical treatment or to omit to treat severely disabled newborns must reach this decision in a climate of uncertainty as to whether their actions will attract criminal liability. The analysis here leads to the conclusion that it is the distinction between viability and nonviability that marks the point at which the law will intervene to criminalize the medical professional's actions, since a non-viable human being is not recognized as a newborn infant under Spanish law, and thus does not enjoy the protection of the criminal law.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/43772
ISBN: 9780191711343
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199228294.003.0012
Fuente: The Criminal Justice System and Health Care
Colección:Artículos
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