Dutch doctors 'refusing' to perform euthanasia (From Gay Rights to Death Rights)

expatica ^ | 3 Feb 2005 | expatica.com

[BykrBayb]

Just quit being a doctor? Isn't that a little extreme?

[cajungirl]

Quit being a Doctor beats murdering a patient if you ask me. No question in my mind. Is there in yours? If those are the only choices. I cannot imagine anyone even thinking that having to pick between those two alternatives would be a problem.

[BykrBayb]

I just don't think that's the only alternative. There must be some other way. Being a doctor isn't like being a stamp collector. You dont just quit. I must admit, I don't have the answer, but quitting has to be a last resort, not the first.

[dervish]

I don't know if you have seen this older article. It turned my stomach:

Euthanasia has also entered the pediatric wards, where eugenic infanticide has become common even though babies cannot ask to be killed. According to a 1997 study published in the British medical journal The Lancet, approximately 8 percent of all Dutch infant deaths result from lethal injections. The babies deemed killable are often disabled and thus are thought not to have a "livable life." The practice has become so common that 45 percent of neonatologists and 31 percent of pediatricians who responded to Lancet surveys had killed babies.

It gets worse: Repeated studies sponsored by the Dutch government have found that doctors kill approximately 1,000 patients each year who have not asked for euthanasia. This is not only a violation of every guideline, but an act that Dutch law considers murder. Nonvoluntary euthanasia has become so common that it even has a name: "Termination without request or consent."

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/smith200312230101.asp

[cajungirl]

Being a doctor is no better or worse than any other job. You don't murder people. It is not extreme to refuse to or to refuse to work in a system that makes murder required or even practiced. Quitting being a doctor beats joining being a murderer in my mind any day. I don't get why any doc would practice in any place where murder was even encouraged.

[Wampus SC]

"It gets worse: Repeated studies sponsored by the Dutch government have found that doctors kill approximately 1,000 patients each year who have not asked for euthanasia. This is not only a violation of every guideline, but an act that Dutch law considers murder. Nonvoluntary euthanasia has become so common that it even has a name: "Termination without request or consent."

It gets even worse. With the law not enforced, or judges handing out one week suspended sentences for murder, it might as well be legal. There are euthanasia advocates in this country who would like to see the US go the way of the Netherlands. We've got to be on guard, and oppose them at every turn.

[muawiyah]

Sounds like the killng is so pervasive that it would be wise for the United States to ban entry of any Dutch medical personnel, and certainly not allow any of them to immigrate to this country, or to practice medicine.

Even those already here ought to be stripped of their licenses, and no Dutch medical education degree should be recognized.

I'm going to write to my HMO to make sure that they have no such people on their staff.

[dervish]

Yes do write to your HMO and then go for a check in I mean check up.

[hinckley buzzard]

"Nonvoluntary euthanasia has become so common that it even has a name: "Termination without request or consent."


For the uninitiated, this is the cold and desolate land known as "The Bottom of the Slippery Slope."

It has been in plain view for several years, despite euro-killers' best efforts to deny and cover up.

[muawiyah]

You do have a consistent pattern don't you. It's far from the "seamless garment" type of argument though because in your logic, everybody ends up dead ~ and sooner rather than later.