| Abstract: | Kerr, a reporter whose Newsday team won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for coverage of the Baby Jane Doe story, briefly summarizes public and congressional reaction to the Department of Health and Human Services' proposed rule on the care of handicapped infants. A letter from the six Senators who had constructed the compromise legislation implementing the rule appears to have been particularly influential in the final wording of the regulation. Kerr concludes that, whatever happens next, the medical care of newborns has entered the political arena and will not easily be removed. |
