From a Slippery Slope to an Avalanche: Euthanizing Children"

Breakpoint ^ | October 5, 2004 | Charles Colson

[gridlock]

If I were a thirty-year-old living in The Netherlands, this would scare me to death. In twenty years, most people under twenty-years-old in The Netherlands will be Muslim. This is the demographic trend. In forty years, about the time I would be entering my "cavity-prone years" where I would be more of a burden than a help to the state, the majority of productive workers in The Netherlands will be Muslim.

Are these taxpaying, productive young Muslims going to have a strong incentive for keeping my old, feeble, ethnic Dutch, Christian butt alive? Or are they going to make the economically rational decision and cut off my air supply?

If I were a middle-aged person in The Netherlands, I would be very wary of putting into place the mechanisms which people will use to make that choice when the time comes.

[Teacher317]

My B-i-L is a neo-natologist. A good and wise man. I can see (fortunately, not yet "have seen") cases where euthanasia might be merciful, but I don't see him making any such determinations on his preemies lightly, or without parental consent. His conscience takes enough damage from the few that he can't save. Intentionally taking one would make him a wreck.

Of course, Lefties probably see nothing wrong with it, since the baby isn't a full 9 months old, yet.

[redgolum]

Pretty good, but you made one mistake. There are few Christians in Europe now. Christianity has been overthrown for secular paganism. Moloch has come back.

[theFIRMbss]

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

The thing is, this stuff started in America, but Europe embraced this approach to life. Because the NAZIS were seen as such "champions" of this ugly stuff, after the war, everyone kind of hushed it up. But it started here, got picked up there, and now it's bouncing back to us . . .

[GeekDejure]

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

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And then along came the Islamofacists !!!

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I think they've been doing this to the elderly for some time. I have an acquaintance whose grandmother lived in Amsterdam. Twenty years ago she was terminally ill. The impression I got is that she was "helped along" at the end.

[ppaul]

This is sick!

Yeah. But we can look forward to it under a Kerry/Edwards administration, which is eternally beholden to pro-death organizations for their support.

[Salvation]

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[Aquinasfan]

More and more, elderly people and people with serious illnesses are going to resist hospitalization, for obvious reasons.

In my own family some relatives killed an elderly family member who was suffering from Alzheimmer's by denying him food and water.

[Aquinasfan]

We've slipped a bit, but we are still a light unto the world.

40 million dead since 1973 is more than a slip. And our debased culture is spewing raw sewage into the world.

[chiefqc]

WHAT MAKES YOU SO SURE THEY DON'T????

[modest proposal]

I think that is a capital idea. I have often advised the Irish to do the same thing with their childre

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[rawhide]

This is sick and it will get worse, I believe.

[redgolum]

I lost my step grandma to Alzheimer's. My grandfather would go visit her everyday for 4 years till he got to sick to drive. Then he would see her at least once a week till the end.

All that time, no one ever once said we should "Help her along". I doubt that even occurred to my grandfather. God set before us a path to tread. We do not have the authority to tell Him we want to stop.

[LtKerst]

This is what the world means by " Progressive"

They have lost their Moral compass, and have begun their decent into depravity.

Soon the people of the netherlands will begin speaking French.

[Askel5]

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[Ladysmith]

That's right. This is part of a post I made a little bit ago:

"I understand what you're saying. There is so much happening that parallels pre-Nazi Germany that history is starting to repeat itself."

The removal of God from the public forum, dumbing-down in our educational system, political correctness, and the biased MSM have done their jobs well. Are we right behind the Netherlands?

May God save our own country.

[Van Jenerette]

...for issues file.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I think there are plenty of doctors and hospitals here that wouldn't go along with euthanasia. There are probably plenty of others that would. But the seed of euthanasia has been planted here, in the minds of average people too.

An old man down the street from me, 85 years old at the time, had some kind of problem that required surgery. After the surgery he was comatose for a few weeks and then, after he came out of the coma, he had a long road to recovery. He was in the hospital over three months. During his worst times, when it didn't seem that he would be making a full recovery or even any kind of recovery, his family approached his doctor about removing life support. The doctor refused, encouraging the family to give the old man some more time.

Three years later, he is vital and active and you would never guess he is 88. He seems at least 20 years younger.

[Esther Ruth]

I've "run into this" with so many family members also. I am wondering what they have read or watched over the last 20 years (it seems) that has changed so many of their minds SO much, what has made them believe that given certain situations - they would be a burden, and that the best thing to do would be to end it all quickly.

I wonder if it is not this embrace of the idea that we never die really, but that our spirits go on to live in the trees, animals and all. People started reading about "native indians" and all their spiritism and all in the early 80's.

Native Indians worshiped the earth, trees etc instead of worshiping the God that created them. (Romans Chapter 1) Who in their right mind thinks that the Loving and wonderful G-D of this Universe would turn the people He loves so much into a tree or a horse? Only a Fool!