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Posted on 09/09/2004 1:27:38 PM PDT by NYer
Brussels, Belgium (LifeNews.com) -- Following a proposal in neighboring Netherlands, Belgian lawmakers are putting forward a measure that would expand the country's legal euthanasia law to allow doctors to end the lives of children without parental permission.
According to a Reuters report, members of Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt's ruling Flemish Liberal political party are putting forward the proposal.
Senators Jeannine Leduc and Paul Wille claim Belgian children with supposedly incurable diseases have as much right to end their lives as adults, Reuters reported.
"Their suffering is as great (and) the situation they face is as intolerable and inhumane," their legislation reads.
The lawmakers also want to legaliz the practice of assisted suicide so patients can kill themselves.
Last week, a leading Catholic official is blasted a proposal in the Netherlands that would allow children under the age of 12 to request assisted suicide.
Bishop Elio Sgreccia, the vice-president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, condemned the idea saying "the final boundary will have been crossed" in disrespect for the sanctity of human life.
Belgium legalized euthanasia in September 2002.
In all, 400 cases of euthanasia have been documented in Belgium since the practice was legalized and many more may not have been reported to governmental authorities.
Brian Johnston, the author of "Death as a Salesman: What's Wrong With Assisted Suicide" told LifeNews.com that the figure leads him to believe that "euthanasia is not being employed for medically indicated reasons but instead for culturally indicated reasons."
Under Belgium's "mercy killing" regulations, a doctor can only assist in a patient's death if the individual has asked "voluntarily and repeatedly" and has "thought deeply" about what he or she is asking.
The patient must also be deemed in full control of his or her mental faculties. Belgian authorities have interpreted that to mean that the patient is fully aware of what he or she is asking and is not being pressured by anyone.
However, a number of ethicists point out that the "right to die" often leads to the "duty to die," with people who are seriously ill believing that they must end their lives in order to avoid being a burden to others.
For instance, published reports indicate that euthanasia practitioners routinely engage in illegal practices that are abusive to patients.
In June, reports surfaced that three people with Huntington's disease and a person with Alzheimer's had died in the Netherlands as a result of euthanasia -- even though Dutch law prohibits mercy killing in such cases.
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Ping!
Liberals - legal terrorists!
More "Little Hitler" legislation in Europe.
You know, there are some real idiots out on the road around here. They cut you off. They drive slower than the speed limit. They clog up all the lanes of our interstate highways by passing somebody going exactly .0005 mph slower than they are. They cause me great suffering and make my life intolerable and inhumane. I should be able to euthanize them without their permission.
After all, the whole point of life is to not suffer, right? Why should I suffer when it's so easy to fix?
Shalom.
Belgium and The Netherlands can join such esteemed and notorious perpetrators of the Massacre of the Innocents as Pharoah and Herod.
Hmmm, and we ask ourselves in disbelief and wonder why Mohammedans reject Western culture and values?
The Nazi's called them "useless eaters."
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Beyond horrible. What a contrast - the terrible slaughter of children in North Ossetia, and now Belgium joining the ranks of child killers. Cruelty and hatred cloaked in false compassion, it's almost worse, since it's clothed in a lie.
What is inhumane?
What about subjecting parents to them not getting the health care for their kids and only seeing them getting whacked without hope or intent at finding a cure or a repossession.
This is not just about killing kids, this is about denying someone's right to speak, represent or heal patients.
This is unilateral unsupervised murder.
Sweet Jesus!
Deliver us from this evil.
There is a college professor who is already promoting "post birth abortion". His contention is .....
"Killing a disabled infant is sometimes not wrong, given that the infant like any infant is not a person as I see it. I think that it's ethically defensible to say we do not have to continue its life. It does not have a right to life. And we can choose to end its life on the grounds that the future otherwise will be very bleak for that child."
No, this is not a quote from Adolph Hitler or one of his psychopathic minions. The individual who made this statement suffers from the same delusions and twisted logic that turned Hitler into the epitome of evil. The only difference between the two is that Adolph Hitler is dead.
This guy, one Peter Singer, is very much alive and well. He enjoys an enviable position at Princeton University where he purports to teach our children, of all things, bioethics.
Excellent point!
They ever try that here on my kids and there`ll be some dead Doctors, STONE COLD DEAD!
Amen.
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