Draft:Erlangen Baby


The Erlangen baby was the foetus of a brain-dead pregnant woman who received weeks of intensive medical treatment at Erlangen University Hospital in 1992 to enable her unborn child to survive. Despite all efforts, the fetus died.

The case led to numerous discussions about the legal and ethical aspects of this procedure and caused a "fire storm of controversy"[1] all over Germany and German speaking countries with reactions in Europe and worldwide.

  1. ^ Fouse, Gary C. (2005). Erlangen: an American's history of a German town. Lanham, Md: University Press of America. p. 328. ISBN 978-0-7618-3024-5.