title: The marginally viable newborn: legal challenges, conceptual inadequacies, and reasonableness.
abstract: Decisions to provide life-sustaining medical care for marginally viable newborns present a unique set of morally complex challenges for providers and parents in the United States. This article examines recent legal trends that restrict discretionary decision-making, and critiques commonly employed ethical justifications offered to support permitting such discretion.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, UC San Francisco, USA.
authors.forename: Sadath A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Sayeed
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making / Q000941:ethics; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005328:Fetal Viability; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D015931:Intensive Care, Neonatal / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D008020:Life Support Care / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D018447:Medical Futility; D009014:Morals; D010360:Patient Transfer / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D011057:Politics; D012151:Resuscitation / Q000941:ethics; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013534:Survival; D014481:United States