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Angelica, the newly sending crisis in the philosophy of life

Carlo Bellieni

Angelica's return home healthy and well cared for made exclamations of joy and wonder in all the newspapers this week: Angelica, a little girl born with a weight of 550 grams to S. Camillo in Rome, when he had not yet passed the 23 weeks of gestation. It is a fact so obvious as to make change my opinion on who is giving clear limitations to resuscitation of premature infants born at less than 26 weeks after conception.

Unfortunately we know it is only the beginning of awareness, because in many Western countries care for extremely tiny infants to survive the following criteria different from those that follow for the assistance and for the survival of an adult who has the same risk of death or disability. For some, Angelica, born too soon because no one had to attend: an adult who falls from a balcony and is dying does. It seems impossible, yet it is this: several facts bear this out.

Studies conducted by a Canadian researcher, Annie Janvier show that the same high risk to health, including infant and adult physicians surveyed tend to treat the baby with less force, to the extreme not to deal at all . But not enough to revive the very small, in some countries expect the explicit request of the parents, knowing that this could have a conflict of interest with the minor (not all fathers and mothers are wonderful, the record tells us) and especially knowing that the sudden and premature birth are both confused and often upset.

And the renowned and famous philosophers argue that babies are not like other people, because they lack the ability to "autonomy", which they say is the characteristic that distinguishes humans in "people" and "non-persons ". And there are protocols designed to encourage children not to resuscitate even if they have a significant chance to survive, given that, in contrast, have a chance - not even a disability-confirmed.

But Angelica has returned home: he has found that the doctors knew that the survival even at 22 weeks is rare, but it is not impossible for many series is 1 in 10-15. Doctors who had no certainty about the prognosis in the delivery room, because the birth is not known if what will be the child who will do it, but still have a chance. But doctors were aware that, as shown in a Swedish study, that hospitals that revived without making a selection based on the risk of disability and death, how would these protocols instead of having a higher percentage of children with disabilities, have even a significantly minor. Knowing that there is a certain threshold below which no attempts to revive and a limit.

That said, the conversation takes us well beyond the criteria and weeks to consider. Because the fact is deeper: it involves the status of "person" that some Italian philosophers would remove the baby. After removing the fetus, which is also impossible to withdraw the child born prematurely, as is the size of a fetus? Perhaps subconsciously maybe that is what the infant does deal differently from the adult.

Quest'erosione of "citizenship" has emerged as an important ethical and moral magazines, and we ask the question: what is the person for us? It is the human being as such or because it has certain characteristics? He who receives "between our"? All, or only those that meet certain dictates? It's a question, we'll also covers adults with mental disabilities and other groups that a little 'to the time you are seeing deny the right to be called "people".

But the story of Angelica, the joy of his parents and the courage of the nurses and doctors who cared giving it a chance, throws light on all this: look at the jet overcomes the division series in human A and B. Angelica has simply because there. This is the challenge.

SOURCE: www.ilsussidiario.net