PEDIATRICS Vol. 94 No. 5 November 1994, pp. 694
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ONE BRITON'S VIEW OF U.S. BIOETHICAL COMMITTEES

The American system of bio-ethical committees in which doctors, lawyers, administrators and churchmen (of all religions?) sit around a table and solemnly pronounce judgement must be the ultimate cop-out: an exercise in buck-passing that can seldom ever have been superceded. The most important people in the negotiations, namely the baby and its parents seem to have the least influence on the decisions. Let us hope that no such impersonal and prejudiced system is ever introduced into the U.K.