Terminally ill adults can make advance directives from their doctors forbidding medical interventions outside the hospital, but a little-known Iowa law does not allow the same power to similarly situated minors and their parents.
Two years ago the Utah legislature authorized use of do-not-resuscitate orders for terminally ill children after discharge from the hospital. The new directives operate on the same model as those for adults, with the additional requirement that two doctors sign for them instead of one. Despite that
