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Baby Doe's case had multiple sides to every issue: What should the treatment be? Who should make decisions about the treatment? How should these decisions be made? Which procedures should be followed when there was no consensus? Who should make decisions about medical care — the medical profession, a patient's relatives, the courts, or the federal government? The case led to the first efforts by the federal government to intervene in decisions on whether or not to treat seriously ill newborns. It once again raised questions about the role of government regulation in medicine. When President Reagan's administration became involved, the political struggles over the issue resulted in Congress passing of the Child Abuse Amendments of 1984, often called the Baby Doe Amendments, to the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act. In 1985 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a...
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