Paige C, Karnofsky E B
J Health Polit Policy Law. 1986 Summer;11(2):255-69. doi: 10.1215/03616878-11-2-255.
In the early 1980s, the leadership of the antiabortion movement became involved in a campaign to establish legal rights to extraordinary medical care for seriously handicapped newborns. Armed with political contacts in the Reagan administration and Congress, and allied with advocates for the disabled, the antiabortion movement searched for a test case to guide through the courts. Antiabortion advocate Lawrence Washburn found such a case in Baby Jane Doe, who was being treated at Stony Brook Medical Center. The movement went on to amend the Child Abuse Act to include protections for handicapped newborns. Activists in the movement chose the issue of Baby Jane Doe because they believed it would attract welcome publicity, give them the appearance of supporting civil rights, and enhance their argument as to the legal rights of the fetus and thus strengthen the case against abortion. The movement was partially successful in obtaining its goals.
20世纪80年代初，反堕胎运动的领导层参与了一场运动，旨在为严重残疾的新生儿争取接受特殊医疗护理的合法权利。凭借在里根政府和国会中的政治人脉，并与残疾人权益倡导者结盟，反堕胎运动寻找一个测试案例以便通过法庭审理。反堕胎倡导者劳伦斯·沃什伯恩在简·多伊宝宝案中找到了这样一个案例，简·多伊宝宝正在石溪医疗中心接受治疗。该运动进而修订了《虐待儿童法案》，将对残疾新生儿的保护纳入其中。该运动的积极分子选择简·多伊宝宝案这个议题，是因为他们认为这会吸引备受欢迎的公众关注，让他们看起来像是在支持民权，并强化他们关于胎儿合法权利的论点，从而加强反对堕胎的理由。该运动在实现其目标方面取得了部分成功。
