It always starts out with “worse case situations” then spreads to killing newborns any reason or no reason at all.
We need to get in front of this soon or it will be too late.
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Posted on 07/17/2008 7:44:14 PM PDT by cpforlife.org
Writes countries must continue to examine the moral, medical, ethical and legal aspects of direct killing of disabled infants
By Hilary White
July 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A professional journal for pediatric nurses has produced an article examining the ethics of infanticide according to the Dutch Groningen Protocol. The Protocol permits the killing of babies in the Netherlands on the judgement of a physician based on "quality of life" criteria. The article, appearing in the May-June 2008 edition of the Journal of Pediatric Nursing, and jointly authored by J. Catlin and Renee Novakovich, talks about the effects of the Protocol on medical ethics in the US.
The piece, "The Groningen Protocol: What Is It, How Do the Dutch Use It, and Do We Use It Here?" calls the issue "complex." The authors describe work undertaken by the American Nurses' Association (ANA) to help nurses define "the differences between euthanasia, assistance in dying and palliative care." The authors also write that although there are wide divisions in opinion on the direct killing of disabled infants, countries must continue to examine the moral, medical, ethical and legal aspects.
However, bioethics writer and critic Wesley J. Smith is sounding a warning, saying that as soon as academics start approaching an issue of life and death with terms like "complex" and "gray areas" and "difficult," the ground is already laid for acceptance.
Wesley J. Smith commended the article's dispassionate approach to the issue, but said that this is really the crux of the problem, for, "The authors' rigorous objectivity about a matter that should be ipso facto condemned, is, to me, very worrying."
"Beware! What we don't condemn, what we claim to be mere 'dilemmas,' we eventually are urged to allow. Infanticide is moving into the mainstream of bioethics and the medical intelligentsia."
The article also contained a few linguistic cracks in its shell of "objectivity." In particular it hinted that American hospitals, which spend millions caring for premature infants, do so at the expense of "social justice," the principle of "non-malficence" or "allowing no harm."
On the other hand, the article implies, countries with government-supported medical systems, such as Canada, Britain and the Netherlands, will be more likely to weigh the scales in favour of infanticide as a form of "social justice" in order to make more of the public medical system available for more worthy patients.
"In countries with socialized medicine, the principles of social justice and non-maleficence (avoiding doing 'good' which causes suffering) have been seen as more important," they say.
The Groningen Protocol was developed by Dutch paediatrician Eduard Verhagen and a group of doctors at the Groningen University Medical Centre in 2004. It allows doctors to make a judgement on the level of suffering of an infant and whether it should be killed by lethal injection. Verhagen summed up the Bioethics principle of "beneficence," saying in an interview, "Death can be more humane than continued life if (life) involves extreme suffering."
Smith has argued that the purpose of the Groningen Protocol is not so much to help legalise infanticide of disabled babies in the Netherlands, but to create a template by which legalised infanticide may spread outward to the rest of the world.
In the Netherlands the Groningen Protocol was not the first indicator that Dutch doctors had been killing disabled babies. In 1992, the Dutch Royal Society of Medicine published guidelines to be used in deciding whether to kill a baby. One of the criteria was to consider whether the child would ever be able to live independently, experience "self realization" (being able to hear, read, write, labor) and have meaningful interpersonal relations. By 1993 it was revealed that three out of eight neonatal intensive care units in the Netherlands had specific policies allowing infanticide by lethal injection and this was endorsed by the Dutch Pediatric Society.
Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Editorial: Infanticide Goes Mainstream and Why Prolife Arguments Need an Update
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/feb/08022203.html
SHOCK: Newborns Who Suffer are “Better off Dead” - “World's Most Prestigious” Bioethics Journal
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/feb/08022201.html
Dutch Euthanasia Doctor Admits to Killing 4 Newborns With Lethal Injections
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/apr/05042706.html
It always starts out with “worse case situations” then spreads to killing newborns any reason or no reason at all.
We need to get in front of this soon or it will be too late.
Please Freepmail me if you want on or off my Pro-Life Ping List.
Reading this makes me so angry and so disgusted. It is beyond words. it is so evil.
It will happen here, and much worse, unless we turn out hearts back to God.
“Moral issues are always terribly complex, for someone without principles.” G.K. Chesterton
I stopped reading after that no reason to to finish it
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The Netherlands are well named.
I would walk out of any facility that even considered the idea. I can’t see most of my former co-workers in peds going for this either.
That pediatric nurses even debate whether or not their patients should live is frightening.
I’m seeing a big uptick in midwife stock over this. Seriously, who in their right mind wants the life of their new baby in the hands of somebody who, at their discretion, or lack thereof, may decide to kill your child?
This rates right up there with a pagan priest who, based on the entrails of a bird he just slaughtered, is likely to bash the baby’s head on a rock because the omens said so. Or because the pagan gods demanded a human sacrifice. Or whatever. Being a pagan priest is never having to say you’re sorry.
At least the husband should be there with a firearm, and inform the nurse that if the baby gets it, the nurse is next. Nursey might decide that a cleft palate isn’t so bad after all. Literally. They have been killing babies because of a cleft palate.
If they had been able, they would have killed Jason Robards, Stacy Keach, Cheech Marin, Jesse Jackson, Mark Hamill and Tom Brokaw. All of whom were born with cleft palate.
Ghastly ... but not unexpected.
My wife is pregnant with our firsts. There are two of them. :) Twins. Both girls.
Seeing a story like this just makes me so sick and disgusted.
Disturbing to realize just how many sociopaths there are among us, isn’t it.
After all, how long have we been hearing the drumbeat of how bad they have it? They earn less, are persecuted for who and what they are, will never get ahead in life and if they do they'll always feel like second class citizens.
And I, because I am so wise (according to me) have decided that that simply is a poor quality of life, and I'm sure (because I'm so wise) that they'd rather be dead than live in a less that ideal existence.
I don't need to ask them if they'd rather be dead. I don't need to because I have the correct solution, according to me. I know what's best for them. Their opinion doesn't measure up to mine.
If they want to do it correctly, they will burn them on an alter to Molech.
Anything less, and their master won’t accept it.
Then spreads to adults.
Take prostate cancer and add, ""In countries with socialized medicine, the principles of social justice and non-maleficence (avoiding doing 'good' which causes suffering)" and mix in a dash 'treatment is painful, embarrassing, and perhaps debilitating; but not treating, though causing a slow but sure death, results in a recipe for 'let them work as long as possible without treatment, then euthanize them.
I read ‘somewhere’ that starving poeple to death causes them pleasure, euphoria even. So, killing the useless eaters will be a euphoric experience ... for someone.
You might have read that the same place I saw the article about serial killers really get a ‘rush’ or ‘high’ when they murder, so it would be a win-win: euphoria for both victem & victimizer.
You are absolutely right!
Hey, did you see the victory in Brazil?
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/114811.php
Well, I am glad to share something with you for a change! And good news at that!
God Bless you, friend.
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