What would you do?

Yesterday in my Education 206 (Nature of the Exceptional Child) class Dr. McCuen gave us a handout and asked us to read it and react to it.

"As Christian individuals and future teachers, we are often faced with moral and ethical questions. Are there any circumstances in which it would be justified to kill a disabled newborn infant? Consider this situation. Anencephahics are infants born without cortexes (higher brains) and sometimes with damaged brain stems (lower brains). Without a brain, the backs of their skills are empty. They will never gain consciousness, will never develop preferences or desires, will never recognize pain, and will never think or form emotions. In other words, they will never develop personhood. Unless attached to life support, most will die within three hours of birth. Whether doctors kill these infants by removing their organs, or they die naturally in their parent's arms, the result is the same: the infant dies. Organs are most viable when removed before the body's natural death. If parents desire to save the lives of other babies by allowing doctors to remove organs from their brain-dead children, should the law stop them? This is currently illegal form of infanticide."

What do you think?