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Belgium: Court Approves “Wrongful Life” Rule that Disabled Child Should Never Have Been Born
First Things/Secondhand Smoke ^ | 12/2/10 | Wesley J. Smith

Posted on 12/04/2010 1:29:31 PM PST by wagglebee

Belgium’s euthanasia law permits people to be killed by doctors because they are disabled.  In such a discriminatory setting, is it any wonder that a Belgian court has now approved the odious notion of a wrongful life.  From the story (may have to hit translation button):

The Court of Appeal in Brussels responds positively to this extremely sensitive issue. After noting that “certainly, the misdiagnosis did not cause the child’s disability, which existed before the error and which could not be remedied,” the Court considers that, “however, the injury must be compensated is not the disability itself, but the fact of being born with such disabilities. “ Thus, the child, the voice of his parents, may claim compensation for physicians who, through their fault, some were injured and legitimate interest to be a therapeutic abortion, as granted that his mother would have been appeal if it had been duly informed of the condition during pregnancy. In the opinion of the Court, by entering in the Penal Code article 350, paragraph 2, 4, authorizing therapeutic abortion, “the legislature must have intended to help avoid giving birth to children with abnormalities serious, having regard not only to the interests of the mother but also to that of the unborn child itself. ”

This is the first time in Belgium that an appellate court receives such a wrongful life action (wrongful life). Previously, a trial court of first instance of Brussels, released April 21, 2004, had adopted a similar solution, about a child with Down syndrome.

This is “life unworthy of life” thinking, “useless eater” invidious discrimination against people with disabilities of the most pronounced kind.  It breeds a deadly contempt for our brothers and sisters with disabilities.  And the scary part: The Belgians see themselves as the epitome of modern tolerance because they couch their bigotry in oozing words of compa-aaaaa-ssssssion! Vile and disgusting.

Culture of death, Wesley?  What culture of death?



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And the scary part: The Belgians see themselves as the epitome of modern tolerance because they couch their bigotry in oozing words of compa-aaaaa-ssssssion! Vile and disgusting.

The even scarier part is that the Zero and his ilk agree with the Belgians.

1 posted on 12/04/2010 1:29:36 PM PST by wagglebee
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3 posted on 12/04/2010 1:31:36 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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4 posted on 12/04/2010 1:33:19 PM PST by narses ( 'Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.')
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People in the United States used to be encouraged to make war on Germany on account of depredations commited against the people of Belgium by the Kaiser, or by Hitler.

Obviously we didn't know them all that well. Certainly we should have begun with a thorough carpet bombing in Flanders, and then Wallonia, and maybe even Brussels.

THEN we could tend to the Germans.

5 posted on 12/04/2010 1:34:48 PM PST by muawiyah (GIT OUT THE WAY ~ REPUBLICANS COMIN' THROUGH)
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Paving the way for more and more “euthanasia”.

“We didn’t catch the illness/disability before birth for an abortion, so we have to allow euthanasia for the suffering we found out after birth”.

HORRIBLE!

Instead of using the medical profession to help alleviate and eliminate suffering, they’re using it for killing. Eliminating the sufferer!


6 posted on 12/04/2010 1:37:17 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.CSLewis)
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Utterly repulsive argument on their part. The child may have disabilities but that doesn’t give anyone the right to deny that child a chance at life.

With that being said, I do agree that women have the right to choose. If you don’t want a child, keep your legs closed and your panties on. Sexual activity is there for a reason, to propagate the species. If you don’t intend on doing that, choose not to engage in a sex act that would result in a child.

Same goes for men. Once a child is conceived, the choice has been made. Abortion is the pagan murderous sacrifice of an unborn child for the sins of the mother and father. Anyone that harms a child is lower than whale crap to me and that includes an unborn child.

Belgian is a cesspool.


7 posted on 12/04/2010 1:40:10 PM PST by BCR #226 (07/02 SOT www.extremefirepower.com...The BS stops when the hammer drops.)
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This is where euthanasia is going. Disabled and elderly take notice.


8 posted on 12/04/2010 1:43:21 PM PST by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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9 posted on 12/04/2010 2:07:47 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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10 posted on 12/04/2010 2:25:48 PM PST by The Comedian (Government: Saving people from freedom since time immemorial.)
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Sounds similar to the Nazi's T-4 Program.


Nazi propaganda for Nazi Germany's T-4 Euthanasia Program: "This person suffering from hereditary defects costs the community 60,000 Reichsmark during his lifetime. Fellow German, that is your money, too."

11 posted on 12/04/2010 2:27:28 PM PST by Roger_Wildcat
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Henry Kissinger’s confidential report on controlling world population through “foreign aid” (1974):

http://www.scribd.com/doc/7423676/NSSM-200-Kissinger-Genocide-Report-1974


12 posted on 12/04/2010 2:46:04 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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I’m sure 0 is looking for a way to incorporate this concept into 0bamaCare as we speak...


13 posted on 12/04/2010 2:47:33 PM PST by MWS (De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum. - Thomas a Kempis)
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14 posted on 12/04/2010 2:49:32 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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Absolutely.


15 posted on 12/04/2010 7:06:07 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.CSLewis)
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May God have mercy on the child the parents and the judges who will very much need it.


16 posted on 12/05/2010 8:12:44 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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Interesting how the Belgians were over-run by NAZI’s not 70 years ago. One wonders if the NAZI’s left some of their own genetic material in Belgium that has flourished and made its way into their court systems.


17 posted on 12/05/2010 11:44:39 AM PST by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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“We didn’t catch the illness/disability before birth for an abortion, so we have to allow euthanasia for the suffering we found out after birth”.

A CURE for Liberalism? No more Democrats?

Can we add - No one allowed to be born on the Left side,,,,of the Bell Curve? /SARC

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