[Blackmane]

This kind of question is hard to decide, but ultimately, I don't think it should be the ethics committee that tells the doctors what they should do for the baby. It is and should always be the parents decision.

The parent is the one responcible for the baby, and the parent can have very different ethics than the hospital. Lets say they have been trying to get a baby for many years and this is there first. Even if the child is heavily handicapped and has a high possibility of being permanently in a "vegetable" state, they may prefer to keep him alive and have a child of there own. They may be willing to cope with the trouble of taking care of the child all there life. On the other hand, they may not have the heart to let the kid live a completely empty world unable to perceive or understand life to its fullest. In that case, the doctors should do what the parents say and the parents have to live with their decision.

This same problem arises when someone is seriously hurt and ends up living, but only in as a "vegetable", not able to talk, see, or interact with anyone or anything. This person has to be on constant life support to live. The doctors can either keep him on life support and maintain that machinery at high cost or pull the plug. In that case, the doctors still should have no voice in the decision making process. That should be left up to family.

Doctors are the tools that we use to heal us and give us life and watch over us while we're ill, but that doesn't mean they should decide whether to take life or not. The decisions are left up to someone else and doctors should simply do it as long as it is plausible.