JNC
Extract
The doctrine that we may determine who are fit to live and who are not-for this is what her practice really comes to has for some time past been abandoned by civilised nations, and although the race would doubtless be improved if the doctrine could be successfully applied, it is, apart from other considerations, too dangerous a one, for man and woman too is prone to err.
JNC. (Correspondence) A Question of Conscience. Br Med J. 1895;2(1813):807.