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Baby Doe Regulations

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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.


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As amendments to the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974, the newer, unaffected Baby Doe regulations give state child-abuse agencies primary enforcement responsibilities.
 
 
 
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