Posted on 11/30/2004 11:13:06 PM PST by kattracks
AMSTERDAM — A hospital in the Netherlands — the first nation to permit euthanasia — has proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newborns and then made a startling revelation: It already has begun carrying out such procedures, which include administering a lethal dose of sedatives.
The announcement by the Groningen Academic Hospital came amid a growing discussion in the Netherlands on whether to legalize euthanasia on people who are incapable of deciding for themselves.[snip]
The hospital revealed last month that it had carried out four such mercy killings in 2003 and had reported the cases to government prosecutors. There have been no legal proceedings against the hospital or the doctors.
Roman Catholic organizations and the Vatican have reacted with outrage to the announcement, and U.S. euthanasia opponents contend that the proposal shows the Dutch have lost their moral compass.
"The slippery slope in the Netherlands has descended already into a vertical cliff," said Wesley J. Smith, a prominent California-based critic.
Child euthanasia remains illegal everywhere.
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nefarious...who is next...no one is safe when you play on the slippery-slope.
Sickening ping.
I say, and am more than half serious, we go to war to stop them. Let's give them some euthanasia. Let them try and euthenate someone their own size.
Just how does a teaching hospital set guidelines for killing someone? Whatever happened to "first do no harm"? I long for the old days when human life was respected by educated men.
Notice how few news outlets will touch this. Why aren't they bragging about the holy "right to choose"? Cowards!
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