Susan Roth: Doing The Right Thing?

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According to the Decision Scenario 1: Doing the Right Thing? Susan Roth was looking forward to becoming a mother. This was Susan and her husband David first child. The Roth infant was seriously deformed. Her arms and legs had failed to develop, her skull was misshapen, and her face deformed. Her large intestine emptied through her vagina, and she had no muscular control over her bladder. As a result, when she was told, Mrs. Roth said, “We cannot let it live, for her sake and ours.” On the day she left the hospital with the child, Mrs. Roth mixed a lethal dose of a tranquilizing drug with the baby’s formula and fed it to her. The child died that evening. Mrs. Roth and her husband were charged with infanticide. During Court Mrs. Roth admitted to the killing but said she had done the right thing. “I know I could not let my baby live like that,” she said. “If only she had been mentally abnormal, she would not have known her fate. But she had a normal brain. She would have known. Placing her in an institution might have helped me, but it wouldn’t have helped her.” The jury, found Mrs. Roth and her husband guilty of the charge. …show more content…

and Mrs. Roth’s termination violates the moral rules do not kill, do not cause pain, and obey the law. Killing a child by giving them a drug is absolutely wrong. Even though the child is deformed this caused some pain from the time the Roth’s fed the child until she died. God gave us 10 commandments to show us how to live a better life and please God forever. One of those commandments are you shall not murder. Harms prevented in this situation would be long-term pain for the sake of the child. On the other hand, killing this baby would prevent the child from pain and suffering. However, it is strongly justified that this act is not permissible due to them being found guilty. The relationship between the mother and her child was not special. Mrs. Roth believed that the evil punishment prevented the child from pain and

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