When she spies a punk-rock teenager cradling a disabled infant, Melanie realizes even the most unlikely character can be a "woman of grace."

Incredulous, Micky read that nearly all bioethicists believed disabled infants, even those mildly disabled, should be neglected until they died.

Medical privatization makes it impossible for poor families to provide a sick or disabled infant sophisticated, long-term treatment.

The rate of children living with handicaps has increased in recent years, in part because of doctors' success in saving premature, sick and disabled infants.

The amendments authorized additional grants for technology, disabled infants and toddlers, parent training, and professional development.

Killing a disabled infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person.

Would remove the courts from the process of developing treatment plans for disabled infants, leaving those decisions to committees of parents, health-care providers and county social workers.

The main point is clear: killing a disabled infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person.

In 1986, for example, he added a $67 million program to the Education of the Handicapped Act to provide educational and rehabilitative services for disabled infants.

Philosopher Peter Singer similarly concludes that infanticide, particularly of severely disabled infants, is justifiable under certain conditions.