Advance care planning lays out the options and allows patients, in consultation with their providers and family members, to ensure that their future treatment is consistent with their wishes and moral values should they become too sick to decide for themselves.

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Our society has a moral obligation to make sure that the next Jared Loughner be given treatment and not be allowed access to the kind of weapon and ammunition he then used so violently and destructively.

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Nor is it the potential of infants to develop these abilities that marks the crucial moral distinction, because we would be equally shocked by anyone who proposed the same treatment for humans born with serious and irreversible intellectual disabilities.

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