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Excerpt from: Physicians' Juries For Defective Babies It is the possibilities of happiness, intelligence and power that give life its sanctity, and they are absent in the case of a poor, misshapen, paralyzed, unthinking creature. I think there are many more clear cases of such hopeless death-in-life than the critics of Dr. Haiselden realize. The toleration of such anomalies tends to lessen the sacredness in which normal life is held.... | ![]() Read Full Text |
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Title: | Physicians' Juries For Defective Babies | |
Creator: | Helen Keller (author) | |
Date: | December 18, 1915 | |
Format: | Article | |
Publication: | The New Republic | |
Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
Location: | pp.173-174 | |
Keywords: | Blind; Cognitive Disability; Deaf; Deaf-blind; Doctors; Eugenics; Euthanasia; H.F. Haiselden; Helen Keller; Laws & Regulation; Massachusetts; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Medicine & Science; Policy; Sensory Disability; Wrentham, MA | |
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