WOW!
YOU ROCK!
Ya'll Might want to read this--
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/09/weuth09.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/04/09/ixportal.html
Nearly half the newborn babies who died in Flanders over a recent year-long period were helped to die by their doctors, a new study reported yesterday.
Paediatricians in the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium either discreetly stopped treating the babies or, in 17 cases, illegally killed them with lethal doses of painkillers.
The study, published in The Lancet, examined the deaths of every baby who died within a year of birth in Flanders between August 1999 and July 2000.
The results of a survey on the causes of death were stark: paediatricians who responded to the survey admitted they had taken "end of life" decisions in more than half the cases.....
Overall, the research yielded information on 253 out of the total of 298 infant deaths in the region over the period. The lethal doses of painkillers, which broke Belgian law, were mainly administered to babies less than a week old.
don't be too sure this isn't happening here - I read somewhere not long ago about a delivery room nurse who left her profession because there were instances of handicapped babies just put in a delivery room closet to die...
There are people, who have the power of life and death over people, that loose their perspective - and slip into believing they have the right to decide who is better off dying - (think of all the "death nurses" that have put patients to sleep, forever, because they thought they were better off.
No one has the fight to make that decision for another human being.
OH NO!