1.   In less imaginative hands, Liz - an unmarried and uncommunicative mum of a handicapped baby - would surely come a cropper.

2.   It is an important protection against behaving in unprofessional ways like procuring an illegal abortion or killing a handicapped baby.

3.   Similar test cases going through the Dutch legal system involve euthanasia on severely handicapped babies.

4.   A Dutch court on Wednesday handed down a homicide conviction against a doctor who gave a handicapped baby a lethal injection, but it declined to sentence the physician.