Posted on 10/06/2004 7:16:30 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican
For all the horror stories we’ve heard about euthanasia in recent years, there are still many people who think of it as “mercy killing.” Those people need to take a long, hard look at what’s happening in the Netherlands right now. It’s very difficult to find anything merciful about what Dutch doctors are doing to children and infants.
According to Wesley J. Smith in the Daily Standard, Groningen University Hospital in the Netherlands now officially allows doctors to euthanize children under twelve, “if doctors believe their suffering is intolerable or if they have an incurable illness.” That includes non-fatal illnesses and disabilities. Whether or not the child can consent is irrelevant—what child under twelve would have a clear idea of what he or she was consenting to?
As Smith writes, “For anyone paying attention to the continuing collapse of medical ethics in the Netherlands, this isn’t at all shocking. . . . Doctors were [already] killing approximately 8 percent of all infants who died each year in the Netherlands. That amounts to approximately eighty to ninety per year. Of these, one-third would have lived more than a month. At least ten to fifteen of these killings involved infants who did not require life-sustaining treatment to stay alive. The study found that a shocking 45 percent of neo-natologists and 31 percent of pediatricians who responded to questionnaires had killed infants.” Smith adds that at least a fifth of the killings were performed without parental consent.
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If I were a thirty-year-old living in The Netherlands, this would scare me to death. In twenty years, most people under twenty-years-old in The Netherlands will be Muslim. This is the demographic trend. In forty years, about the time I would be entering my "cavity-prone years" where I would be more of a burden than a help to the state, the majority of productive workers in The Netherlands will be Muslim.
Are these taxpaying, productive young Muslims going to have a strong incentive for keeping my old, feeble, ethnic Dutch, Christian butt alive? Or are they going to make the economically rational decision and cut off my air supply?
If I were a middle-aged person in The Netherlands, I would be very wary of putting into place the mechanisms which people will use to make that choice when the time comes.
Of course, Lefties probably see nothing wrong with it, since the baby isn't a full 9 months old, yet.
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The thing is, this stuff started in America, but Europe embraced this approach to life. Because the NAZIS were seen as such "champions" of this ugly stuff, after the war, everyone kind of hushed it up. But it started here, got picked up there, and now it's bouncing back to us . . . |
This is a Preview of Coming Attractions for the United States.
I think they've been doing this to the elderly for some time. I have an acquaintance whose grandmother lived in Amsterdam. Twenty years ago she was terminally ill. The impression I got is that she was "helped along" at the end.
Yeah. But we can look forward to it under a Kerry/Edwards administration, which is eternally beholden to pro-death organizations for their support.
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In my own family some relatives killed an elderly family member who was suffering from Alzheimmer's by denying him food and water.
40 million dead since 1973 is more than a slip. And our debased culture is spewing raw sewage into the world.
I think that is a capital idea. I have often advised the Irish to do the same thing with their childre
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This is sick and it will get worse, I believe.
This is what the world means by " Progressive"
They have lost their Moral compass, and have begun their decent into depravity.
Soon the people of the netherlands will begin speaking French.
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"I understand what you're saying. There is so much happening that parallels pre-Nazi Germany that history is starting to repeat itself."
The removal of God from the public forum, dumbing-down in our educational system, political correctness, and the biased MSM have done their jobs well. Are we right behind the Netherlands?
May God save our own country.
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I think there are plenty of doctors and hospitals here that wouldn't go along with euthanasia. There are probably plenty of others that would. But the seed of euthanasia has been planted here, in the minds of average people too.
An old man down the street from me, 85 years old at the time, had some kind of problem that required surgery. After the surgery he was comatose for a few weeks and then, after he came out of the coma, he had a long road to recovery. He was in the hospital over three months. During his worst times, when it didn't seem that he would be making a full recovery or even any kind of recovery, his family approached his doctor about removing life support. The doctor refused, encouraging the family to give the old man some more time.
Three years later, he is vital and active and you would never guess he is 88. He seems at least 20 years younger.
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