Doctors Criticize Euthanasia of Children

NewsMax ^ | 9/6/04 | Zenit.org

[wagglebee]

Unfortunately, this is the next logical step once civilization decided that butchering a baby was a "choice."

[wagglebee]

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[FormerACLUmember]

Most Dutch euthanasia occur on Friday mornings, so as not to disturb the socialized medicine doctors' weekend with those annoying sick patient calls back to the hospital.

[secretagent]

Socialized medicine leads to euthanasia.

[Jeff Chandler]

Euthanasia leads to genocide.

[Salvation]

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[Salvation]

Pro-life bump.

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We could ping them too.

[wagglebee]

I have relatives and know a few other people who have lost young children. And everyone of them would give everything the have for one more minute with their child. I cannot imagine the mindset of a parent allowing their child to be euthanized.

This is so very different than the decision to remove life-support after a catastrophic injury or an illness where only a machine is hastening death.

[Jeff Chandler]

>>I think Hitler might've skipped the euthanasia part and went straight to genocide...<<

Nope. The German socialized health care system started with euthanasia before Hitler even took power. Once you determine that misfits can be eliminated, then it's just a matter of defining "misfit".

[Nowhere Man]

This is sick. Whomever came up with this idea needs to be taken out to the barn and witch-slapped silly. One day, the Dutch ultra-permissiveness will come and bite them in the butt big time.

[tiki]

I just don't know what to say.

[wagglebee]

Hitler had a policy of killing groups of people that he viewed as "impure". That is so very different from a parent deciding to allow a doctor to kill their child.

[ClearCase_guy]

You've got it exactly right. In Germany, there was the designation "useless eater" which might have preceded Hitler, but was certainly used in his time. Socialism is very big on identifying the people who are "unecessary" for the good of "society". Start with the retarded, mentally ill, or terminally sick. From there, it is quite easy to shift focus to the Jews, or the Blacks, or the Eskimos. Just a matter of degree.

Another example of why the Nazis were leftists.

[madprof98]

Not at the outset:

First victim of Nazi 'mercy killings' revealed.
In August 1939, the Nazi government of Germany began a program of enforced euthanasia on a range of people they deemed "unworthy of living" (codenamed T4); over 275,000 were killed, including the disabled and those suffering from mental illness. By 1940 there were six specialist hospitals in Germany dealing with the victims, by 1945 296 medical centres were being used across occupied Europe. A project by the modern German government to record and remember the names of these dead has revealed the identity of the original catalyst: a five month old boy. Unlike the rest of T4's victims, the parents of this severely disabled child had written to Hitler asking for a mercy killing; after an examination by the Fuhrer's own doctor, the child was killed, providing the final trigger for a plan Hitler had thought about for a decade. The boy was called Gerhard Kretschmar.

[wagglebee]

There are exceptions to almost everything.

[Sir Gawain]

Link?

[sinanju]

"You've got it exactly right. In Germany, there was the designation "useless eater" which might have preceded Hitler, but was certainly used in his time. Socialism is very big on identifying the people who are "unecessary" for the good of "society". Start with the retarded, mentally ill, or terminally sick. From there, it is quite easy to shift focus to the Jews, or the Blacks, or the Eskimos. Just a matter of degree."

"Another example of why the Nazis were leftists."

I read that Hitler got his ideas on eugenics and euthanasia from our own Margaret Sanger who was a major proponent for the sterilization and abortion of undesirables (our african-american brothers and sisters, especially). I believe he even wrote letters to her and glowing reviews of her works in the thirties.

[Siamese Princess]

Socialized medicine leads to euthanasia.

You got it. "He who pays the piper gets to call the tune." If you want the government to "take care" of you, be prepared to let the government make your decisions for you.

[ClancyJ]

Would seem they could spend that time and effort on finding drugs to ease the child's pain. Why the rush to kill?