Lisa Blumberg: A Classic Case of Lethal Denial of Medical Treatment Based On Disability

…mment on the update to the 504 regulations by the Department of Health and Human Services, we included a case documented in the National Council on Disability’s report on medical futility and disability where doctors gave parents of an infant with trisomy 18 misleading information about the child’s survivability. They did this to induce the parents to consent to the withholding of treatment. The Department affirmed that this type of scenario would…