Posted on 12/26/2004 9:13:21 AM PST by Jacob Kell
Officials from the Dutch Ministry of Justice say the legislature of the Netherlands is preparing a new protocol designed to protect doctors who euthanize newborns with severe disabilities, according to Dr. Eduard Verhagen, the head of pediatrics at Groningen Hospital.
Verhagen is an outspoken advocate for killing seriously deformed babies, a procedure he admits he's performed four times in the past 16 months.
"There is a small group of children for whom no treatment is possible for the congenital disease and malformations they are born with," Verhagen told the London Telegraph, explaining why he had chosen to break the law. "Asking doctors to take away the pain easily and allow the child to die quietly is the natural reaction.
"For the incurable to die early requires that we do this or they enter a starvation phase and what suffering is more unbearable than a minor left to die from natural causes such as these."
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Why, the article is incomplete. Surely this "doctor" they quote here must have made the secondary argument for quick death paving the way for experimentation, research, body parts, cloning, and stem cells, etc. After all, they'll need to put these euthanized human beings to good use....so that "others may be helped"....and so that the euthanized children don't "die in vain"......so their parents feel like they are "contributing to society" rather than losing a child.....
That's why they're restarting the killing machinery.
Well,All I can say is that the Pit awaits the Proud and the Boastful!
Simply diabolical..
The infanticide cases I heard about in the Netherlands, or saw a video clip of, included Downs syndrome (compatible with a happy life), spina bifida (reparable, but child's doctor did not seem to know that -"she screamed whenever she was touched.") and a really bad looking genital-anal malformation (no doubt plastic surgeons have tackled worse problems).
In other words, problems that were not incompatible with life, even a happy or productive life, but problems that the parents did not choose to deal with, or were pressured by the doctors into seeing as unsurmountable.
Mrs VS
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