PEDIATRICS Vol. 73 No. 6 June 1984, pp. 878
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The American Privilege To Disagree

WILLIAM A. SILVERMAN MD1

1 90 La Cuesta Drive, Greenbrae, CA 94904

To the Editor.—

Your correspondent from the US Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Service1 has implied that the Declaration of Independence is the source of inspiration for the present government's new policy of social control when a severely malformed infant is born. The unprecedented intrusion of government into the privacy of the family circle is a gross shift toward totalitarianism—I am amazed that we are asked to believe the oppressive policy is as American as apple pie.