Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform Act Amendments of 1983
Long title
An act to extend and improve provisions of laws relating to child abuse and neglect and adoption, and for other purposes.
Nicknames
Baby Doe Law
Baby Doe Amendment
Enacted by
the 98th United States Congress
Effective
October 9, 1984
Citations
Public law
Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 98–457
Statutes at Large
98 Stat. 1749
Codification
U.S.C. sections amended
42 U.S.C. §§ 5102, 5103, 5103(b)(2), 5104
Legislative history
Introduced in the House as H.R. 1904 by Austin Murphy (D‑PA 22nd), John Erlenborn (R‑IL 13th), Mario Biaggi (D‑NY 19th), Steve Bartlett (R‑TX 3rd), Paul Simon (D‑IL 22nd), James Jeffords (R‑VT AL), George Miller (D‑CA 7th), William Goodling (R‑PA 19th), Baltasar Corrada (I‑PR AL), Steve Gunderson (R‑WI 3rd), Joseph Gaydos (D‑PA 20th), Pat Williams (D‑MT 1st) on March 3, 1983
Committee consideration by House – Education and Labor
Passed the House on February 2, 1984 (396-4)
Passed the Senate on July 26, 1984 (89-0)
Reported by the joint conference committee on September 19, 1984; agreed to by the House on September 26, 1984 (voice vote) and by the Senate on September 28, 1984 (voice vote)
Signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on October 9, 1984
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Groups
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People
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Jurisdictions
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Laws
Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995 (Australia)
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Alternatives
Assisted suicide
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The Baby Doe Law or Baby Doe Amendment is an amendment to the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974, passed in 1984, that sets forth specific criteria and guidelines for the treatment of disabled newborns in the United States, regardless of the wishes of the parents.
The BabyDoeLaw or BabyDoe Amendment is an amendment to the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974, passed in 1984, that sets forth specific...
Richard)/Jane Roe, John/Jane Smith, John/Jane Bloggs, and Johnie/Janie Doe or just BabyDoe for children. A. N. Other is also a placeholder name, mainly used...
undermined the right of physicians to make sound medical decisions. BabyDoeLaw "'Baby K' Dies at 2½ in Fairfax Hospital". Richmond Times-Dispatch. 1995-04-07...
by 2019. Thaddeus Pope, a bioethicist at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law, said the debate over Sarco may result in a new way of approaching end-of-life...
terminally ill patients who requested to die. In 1906, Ohio considered a law to legalize such a form of euthanasia, but it did not make it out of committee...
The law on Euthanasia in India distinguishes between active and passive euthanasia. Forms of active euthanasia, including the administration of lethal...
creating the "BabyDoe Squads" and toll-free hotline to answer any complaint concerning potential abuse of a disabled infant. Known as the BabyDoe regulations...
Queensland Police in Australia said that suicide bags did not violate any laws at that time and the Australian federal government said it would look into...
attempt to treat her condition, and that Nys had not been incurably ill as the law required. Euthanasia for mental illness has been legal since 2002 in the...
"Government Lethal Chamber" in the then-future year of 1920, after the repeal of laws against suicide: "The Government has seen fit to acknowledge the right of...
possibilities of legal suicide assistance for foreigners in Switzerland. The law primarily targeted Dignitas, the sole organization offering assisted suicide...
2016 for those whose death was reasonably foreseeable. In March 2021, the law was further amended by Bill C-7 which to include those suffering from a grievous...
specific circumstances. The law was proposed by Els Borst, the D66 minister of Health. The procedures codified in the law had been a convention of the...
administering lethal injection, remain prohibited in Switzerland. Swiss law only allows providing means to die by suicide and the reasons for doing so...
weighs the law and adheres to the law. We have the means and the methods to protest the laws with which we disagree. You can criticize the law, you can...
eliminate pain and suffering. Different countries have different euthanasia laws. The British House of Lords select committee on medical ethics defines euthanasia...
place. Careful execution of the termination. Doctors who end the life of a baby must report the death to the local medical examiner, who in turn reports...
their terms. Death is a natural process of life thus there should not be any laws to prevent it if the patient seeks to end it. What we do at the end of our...
2008‑01‑01), ISBN 978-1-55111-873-4, p. 127. Canada's proposed assisted-dying law to preclude suicide tourism 241 - Suicide | Criminal Code of Canada The Rodriguez...
Schiavo's feeding tube. It also protested against the movie Million Dollar Baby, in which the injection of an overdose of epinephrine to euthanize a suicidal...
in 1997 after the over-turning of the world's first Voluntary Euthanasia law—the Rights of the Terminally Ill (ROTI) Act enacted in the Northern Territory...
have been raised include how California law treats brain death and whether McMath's case could change existing laws and practices. McMath's attorney, Christopher...
chamber or body cavity.[citation needed] With regard to state and federal laws, one of the most humane forms of euthanizing animals is through the injection...
work's anti-war message. The recent films Mar Adentro and Million Dollar Baby argue more directly in favor of euthanasia by illustrating the suffering...