Posted on 02/13/2014 1:07:21 PM PST by Cronos
Parliament in Belgium has passed a bill allowing euthanasia for terminally ill children without any age limit, by 86 votes to 44, with 12 abstentions.
...Opponents argue children cannot make such a difficult decision.
It is twelve years since Belgium legalised euthanasia for adults.
In the Netherlands, Belgium's northern neighbour, euthanasia is legal for children over the age of 12, if there is parental consent.
Under the Dutch conditions, a patient's request for euthanasia can be fulfilled by a doctor if the request is "voluntary and well-considered" and the patient is suffering unbearably, with no prospect of improvement.
One man in the public gallery of Belgium's parliament shouted "murderers" in French when the vote was passed, Reuters news agency reports.
... Church leaders argued the law is immoral.
"The law says adolescents cannot make important decisions on economic or emotional issues, but suddenly they've become able to decide that someone should make them die," Brussels Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard, head of the Catholic Church in Belgium, said at a prayer vigil last week.
..Some paediatricians have warned vulnerable children could be put at risk and have questioned whether a child can really be expected to make such a difficult choice.
Last week 160 Belgian paediatricians signed an open letter against the law, claiming that there was no urgent need for it and that modern medicine is capable of alleviating pain.
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Hard to believe, isn’t it?
As you start deviating and evermore adopting a new sense of normal, eventually you get to a point where killing a 7 year old boy who has Down’s is ethical.
There are people in the US asking for the same, and I wouldn’t be shocked at all if in 20 years as with the shift in attitudes regards homosexuality, this becomes palatable by main stream America.
I say euthanize all those who voted for this. I say also, euthanize all those who vote for any kind of abortion. They are already brain dead.
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