The ruling appears to wind down a
controversial case that elicited deeply
felt responses as it touched on several sensitive
issues, including breastfeeding, co-sleeping, sexual abuse and society's norms
about what constitutes good parenting.
Many physicians
feel no obligation to tell patients
about legal but morally
controversial medical treatments or to refer patients to doctors who do not object to those treatments, report researchers from the University of Chicago in the Feb. 8, 2007,
issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.