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This article is about the anencephalic baby. For the baby clothes designed by Myleene Klass, see Myleene Klass § Clothes design.Baby K (October 13, 1992—April 5, 1995) was an anencephalic baby who became the center of a major U.S. court case and a debate among bioethicists.
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Baby K the BOSS
Baby K grew up to b a ninja wizard and killed all the communists
Significance of Baby K. case
The case of Baby K. is of particular importance to the field of bioethics because of the rich variety of issues it raises: the definition of death, the nature of personhood, the concept of medical futility, and many issues relating to the allocation of scarce resources.
Some commentators, including Arthur Kohrman and Jacob Appel, have argued that the ruling effectively undermined the right of physicians to make sound medical decisions.