Posted on 02/14/2014 9:01:23 AM PST by NYer
BRUSSELS, February 13, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Belgium has become the first country in the world to approve euthanasia for children of all ages after the country’s parliamentarians passed the controversial bill today in a vote of 86 to 44, with 12 MPs abstaining.
Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, called the move a “form of abandonment.”
“Belgium has abandoned the elderly, and now they are saying they will abandon their children,” he told LifeSiteNews.
Schadenberg said the new law is not about ending suffering for children with disabilities, but about expanding the “categories that are eligible for death.”
The bill was first introduced in December 2012.
The law extends to those under the age of 18 who request euthanasia with parental consent. It also applies to younger children requesting euthanasia after a doctor has certified that the child fully understands the implications of the decision.
“This is the horrific logic of euthanasia: Once killing is accepted as an answer to human difficulty and suffering, the power of sheer logic dictates that there is no bottom,” wrote Wesley J. Smith about the law.
The proposed law had been protested by a number of groups that said the existing 2002 euthanasia legislation has been an unmitigated disaster.
Schadenberg said he was not surprised to see the bill pass, since he said the entire euthanasia project in Belgium is being “pushed blindly” by a government that has ignored all the abuses currently taking place within existing euthanasia laws.
“Euthanasia has been really out of control in Belgium for quite some time. We know from studies that about 32 percent of euthanasia deaths go without requests. Over half of euthanasia deaths are not reported,” he said.
Schadenberg said the new law will only make it easier for doctors to indiscriminately and without repercussion end the lives of the most vulnerable deemed unfit to live.
Prayers for Belgium, ping!
The natural end point of rationalizing assisted suicide.
Life gets cheaper and cheaper in the world of eugenics.
For once, I’m speechless.
Being next door to Germany, you would have thought they would have learned a little from Hitler’s policies.
What the Enemy couldn't get in your grandfather's day by force, he now gets by choice.
I had this vision as I read the article...
A group of three people wanders the floors of a modern hospital, their task is simple. They have a quota to fulfill...
They come to Tommy’s room, He just had a tonsilectomy the day before and is having a bowl of ice-cream.
The three look at him and then each other. The one in the middle places a black card on the clipboard at the bottom of the bed.
As they walk out Tommy hears the following conversation:
Why him?
HE was smiling and I don’t like smiling little boys.
Oh, good enough I suppose.
Tommy’s nurse come in and spots the black card on the Clipboard. Shrugs her shoulders and goes to the special cabinet and removes a prepared syringe. A few minutes later Tommy is dead and the quota is one more on the way to being fulfilled.
So tell me people, what will you do when Tommy is your son or nephew? What then?
Makes me wonder if the American soldier lives we spent to liberate Belgium from the Nazis was worth it.
The Nazis invaded Belgium in 1940. Elimination of the halt, the lame, the insane, & other “useless eaters” was a top Nazi priority toward building their Master Race.
Now this. Hitler is laughing in Hell.
Hitler won. The liberal are his spawn.
I can hardly read German but that Nazi poster is saying that the chronically mentally ill aren’t worth the cost of keeping them alive. “It’s your money that’s being spent!” is the message.
Mein Gott........!
Think of it as just a very late term abortion. It is all about the woman’s right to choose. If her kid is irritating or inconvenient to her lifestyle, she can have the kid terminated. It puts real teeth in those threats. “You better be good!”
Question: Don't parents value their children more than their own lives? I was never a parent, but I think I'd make sure my niece and nephew were safe before I was safe.
This probably come from the US very soon NYER with Obamacare in effect HELLO
You get one of those Rich Vain North Cali parents who don’t want burdern of nursing sick child they just said okay kill my kid
Especially the Libs up in North Cali they go for wholeheartly some of people come from Oregon
Murder is legal in Belgium. Good to know.
Every congressman and senator who voted to raise the debt ceiling, voted to take more money from our (and their) children and grandchildren. For what?
Every single person who criticizes Ted Cruz for sticking to the principle of spending in our means and leaving our children with a better world, No matter how they detract from him, the only one doing anything about any of this, is guilty.
There will be no money for health care. There will be on doctors.
There will be euthanasia. Anyone not fighting the problem, anyone detracting from those bringing the problem and the problem people to light, is part of the problem.
They have socialized medicine in Belgium. Their tax rate is higher than ours. It’s where we are headed. And their med system was thought out with peoples’ health in mind.
Ours was certainly not thought out nor agreed upon.
“mommy, why can’t I vote?” “cuz you’re too young”
“mommy, why can’t I have sex with my friend?” “cuz you’re too young”
“mommy, why can’t I drive?” “cuz you’re too young”
“mommy, life sucks. Can I take those pills and die?” “Ok, child. You’re old enough to know what you’re doing.”
Liberalism is the denial of human nature.
Easy there cowboy.
Peter Singer is celebrating.
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