Medical Ethics

Dr Vivienne Nathanson, head of ethics at the British Medical Association, said: "For doctors, the decisions are extraordinarily difficult because they have to have at the centre of their sights the child and the welfare of the child, and not putting the child through a burdensome treatment where there is no hope of any future improvement."

The premise is that there is an acceptable normal life that is standardized around the world and anything less than this is not worth living. Because this child seems to be at the bottom of the scale than it is proper to dispose of it. Is that the right way to be thinking though? This child is not my dog?
They talk as though it is in the childs best interest, throughout History people have used the same language.

"every child a wanted child"
"Abortion will stop child abuse"

These are commonly bantered about and yet I have never heard of more child abuse in our country than what we have now. We treat children worse now than most slaves of the past centuries. Slavery was dispicable, and so is the way we treat our children.
The ironic thing about this, this child is wanted and the institution that should be protecting him is trying to off him. I think that ethically these physicians need to be let go, as they are trying to be ethicist as well.