As state health officials plan for healthcare rationing during the coronavirus pandemic, lawyers, ethicists and theologians are warning that denying care on the basis of age or disability violates federal law. “There’s always the temptation when things get rough,” says Prof. Robert George, “and when you’re looking at rationing situations and looking at triage, to fall into the error of devaluing human lives.”

Ethical healthcare rationing
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