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Medical, Legal, and Ethical Conundrums at the Edge of Life

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Each year, approximately 30,000 genetically handicapped at-risk infants are born in the United States.1 In Australia alone, it has been estimated by the new South Wales Health Commission that approximately $500,000 will be spent during an average lifetime for one institutionalized person with a genetic abnormality.2

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