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From a Slippery Slope to an Avalanche: Euthanizing Children"
Breakpoint ^ | October 5, 2004 | Charles Colson

Posted on 10/06/2004 7:16:30 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican

For all the horror stories we’ve heard about euthanasia in recent years, there are still many people who think of it as “mercy killing.” Those people need to take a long, hard look at what’s happening in the Netherlands right now. It’s very difficult to find anything merciful about what Dutch doctors are doing to children and infants.

According to Wesley J. Smith in the Daily Standard, Groningen University Hospital in the Netherlands now officially allows doctors to euthanize children under twelve, “if doctors believe their suffering is intolerable or if they have an incurable illness.” That includes non-fatal illnesses and disabilities. Whether or not the child can consent is irrelevant—what child under twelve would have a clear idea of what he or she was consenting to?

As Smith writes, “For anyone paying attention to the continuing collapse of medical ethics in the Netherlands, this isn’t at all shocking. . . . Doctors were [already] killing approximately 8 percent of all infants who died each year in the Netherlands. That amounts to approximately eighty to ninety per year. Of these, one-third would have lived more than a month. At least ten to fifteen of these killings involved infants who did not require life-sustaining treatment to stay alive. The study found that a shocking 45 percent of neo-natologists and 31 percent of pediatricians who responded to questionnaires had killed infants.” Smith adds that at least a fifth of the killings were performed without parental consent.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: euthanasia; infanticide; nuance; nuanced; righttolife; terrischiavo
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1 posted on 10/06/2004 7:16:30 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

This is sick!


2 posted on 10/06/2004 7:17:46 AM PDT by muffaletaman
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

european enlightened intellectual ping


3 posted on 10/06/2004 7:19:37 AM PDT by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
Smith adds that at least a fifth of the killings were performed without parental consent.

I can tell you that a Doc wouldn't do any more after mine.....

4 posted on 10/06/2004 7:20:06 AM PDT by Onelifetogive (* Sarcasm tag ALWAYS required. For some FReepers, sarcasm can NEVER be obvious enough.)
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To: muffaletaman

I suppose we should be grateful that people in the Netherlands aren't also cooking and eating their children after they murder them....


5 posted on 10/06/2004 7:22:53 AM PDT by freebilly (Vote John Kerry-- Global Testicle....)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

This is the obvious result of the "wisdom" of judges.

Once judges decide that murder is legal inside a woman's body it's only a matter of time before it becomes legal outside of it too.

Look for our own Judiciary to copy this ruling since some of them so love the European judicial systems.


6 posted on 10/06/2004 7:23:55 AM PDT by Noachian (A Democrat, by definition, is a Socialist.)
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To: John O

sick ping...this is too much!


7 posted on 10/06/2004 7:24:12 AM PDT by andie74 (W stands for Women)
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To: silverleaf
european enlightened intellectual ping

Kerry's hoped for Allies ping.

8 posted on 10/06/2004 7:26:03 AM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
The American Revolution led to a society where individual life, liberty, and property were valued. We've slipped a bit, but we are still a light unto the world.

The French Revolution led to socialism, where atheism, ruthless political scapegoating, deadly persecution of the weak and worship of the central state were the focus.

The Nazis were part of the European slide into barbarism. And the slide was not halted in 1945, only delayed for a little while.

9 posted on 10/06/2004 7:27:41 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
"..or the infant born with profound mental retardation?”

These people believe with ALL their hearts that ending these lives is THE most loving and merciful thing you can do! They are sincerely bewildered that someone would want to keep them alive and seem obsessed with killing - hmmm - where could this obsession be coming from?????
10 posted on 10/06/2004 7:29:18 AM PDT by Esther Ruth (Now is THE time for all good men to turn Off CBS, NBC, ABC)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

The logical conclusion of the "right to die" insanity.

If the "right to die" advocates get their way here, this sort of thing will be commonplace in the USA.


11 posted on 10/06/2004 7:31:48 AM PDT by Skooz (We keep you alive to serve this ship. Row well, and live.)
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To: muffaletaman; Southside_Chicago_Republican
"What was unthinkable yesterday is thinkable today, and ordinary and commonplace tomorrow." - Francis Schaeffer

It may be sick but this is our future.

Actually it is also the past. The Nazis did this after WW1 and throughout the 30's.

12 posted on 10/06/2004 7:33:16 AM PDT by FatLoser
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To: Esther Ruth
where could this obsession be coming from?????

Not from that, Esther Ruth, which sustained Esther and Ruth....

13 posted on 10/06/2004 7:33:38 AM PDT by freebilly (Vote John Kerry-- Global Testicle....)
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To: Esther Ruth
where could this obsession be coming from?

Satan.

14 posted on 10/06/2004 7:34:28 AM PDT by Tax-chick (It's possible that I look exactly like Catherine Zeta-Jones.)
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To: Esther Ruth

Try the enemy of our souls, satan himself. He is the destroyer. And he hates children.


15 posted on 10/06/2004 7:36:26 AM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD is STILL in control, even if Bush loses in 2004!)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

This is a Preview of Coming Attractions for the United States.

If the state becomes responsible for the cost of health care, the state will look after it's interests. The interest of the state is served by minimizing cost by eliminating the sick and the feeble, or anyone who represents more costs than can they can reasonably be expected to provide in tax revenue. State responsibility for expenses sets up a perverse incentive. Keeping this in check will be the job of the electorate. But would it not make more sense not to put the state in the position of having such a perverse incentive?

Ultimately the state will grind the people down and have it's way, so it is very important to make sure the state's interest is the same as the people's interest. This is not at all true with nationalized health-care.


16 posted on 10/06/2004 7:41:16 AM PDT by gridlock (BARKEEP: Why the long face? HORSE: Ha ha, old joke. BARKEEP: Not you, I was talking to JF'n Kerry!)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
"Assisted Suicide" poster campaign, required to reduce suicide costs of $1.8 billions
17 posted on 10/06/2004 7:41:18 AM PDT by Truth666
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

Sick.


18 posted on 10/06/2004 7:43:41 AM PDT by conservative cat
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
role of brain death

It has already been proposed here that we use organs from children who are not brain dead.

19 posted on 10/06/2004 7:44:44 AM PDT by MarMema (Sharon is my hero)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

This is what happens when people start allowing infanticide, ie abortion. Suddenly inconvience becomes a justifiable reason for murder. How can anyone okay ending the already short life of child. I think that anybody who approves of giving women a choice should take a long hard look at what "choice" has brought to the Netherlands


20 posted on 10/06/2004 7:58:19 AM PDT by Celtic Rose (It may be prudent in me to act sometimes by other men's reason, but I can think only by my own)
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