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Who Should Survive? (1971)
(1971-09-09)
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Executive Vice President of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation, opens the film by describing, along with a simulated depiction, a birthing scene of a Down's Syndrome infant with duodenal atresia ...
Bertha (1973)
(1973)
This 1973 classic bioethics film in bioethics education discusses the rights of the retarded. Bertha, a mildly retarded young woman (not Down's Syndrome), was given an IUD at age 15, and requests its removal when she is ...
The Right to ... Let Die (1973)
(1973)
This early television classic continues to be used for education. Participants are Sidney Callahan, The Hastings Center; David C. Abrahamson, Georgetown pediatrician, Warren T. Reich, Kennedy Institute of Ethics scholar; ...