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    • Medical Ethics
    • Philosophy of Medicine

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    • Healthcare providers experience moral distress when acceding to parental requests for life-sustaining treatment for children with profound cognitive disabilities.
    • Existing ethical frameworks struggle to provide clear moral justification in these complex cases.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To evaluate a proposed ethical framework combining relational potential and care ethics for justifying life-sustaining treatment decisions.
    • To explore alternative philosophical approaches to understanding the moral value of parenting and family relationships.

    Main Methods:

    • Critical analysis of ethical arguments presented by Wightman et al.
    • Philosophical examination of concepts such as relational potential, capacity, and family membership.
    • Comparative analysis with Eva Feder Kittay's articulation of family membership.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed combination of relational potential and care ethics is deemed unstable and prone to misinterpretation.
    • The framework's reliance on uncertainty to infer relationship characteristics is questioned.
    • Eva Feder Kittay's concept of family membership offers a distinct and independent moral justification for parenting.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed ethical framework by Wightman et al. requires significant revision due to inherent instability and potential for misinterpretation.
    • Eva Feder Kittay's work provides a more robust and independent foundation for understanding the moral value of parenting in complex medical decisions.
    • Further ethical deliberation is needed to address moral distress in pediatric end-of-life care decisions.