Baby Doe regulations

Federal regulations promulgated in 1985 for implementing the ‘Baby Doe Law’, which required that disabled infants with life-threatening conditions receive the ‘...appropriate nutrition, hydration, and medication, which in the treating physician’s...reasonable medical judgement will be most likely to be effective in ameliorating or correcting all such conditions’

Baby Doe regulations

Health & law Federal regulations promulgated in 1985 for implementing the 'Baby Doe Law', which require that disabled infants with life-threatening conditions receive the '…appropriate nutrition, hydration, and medication, which in the treating physician's…reasonable medical judgement will be most likely to be effective in ameliorating or correcting all such conditions'. See Baby Doe, Baby–Jane Doe.

Baby Doe regulations

Federal, state, and hospital policies insuring that handicapped infants will receive nourishment, warmth, and life-saving treatment without regard to the quality of life.