Posted on 04/22/2023 6:01:38 PM PDT by marshmallow
Euthanasia is to be extended to primary school-age children in the Netherlands, the Dutch government has announced.
Health Minister Ernst Kuipers said that children aged five to 12 years can obtain lethal injections if “life termination is the only viable option to end the child’s hopeless and unbearable suffering”.
The country already allows the euthanasia of gravely ill newborn children under the infamous Groningen Protocol.
According to the NLTimes, Mr Kuipers said he expects the regulations to be implemented within the year.
He said he also expected up to 10 primary school-age children a year to die by lethal injection as a result.
The regulations will work by exempting doctors from prosecution if they perform an approved child euthanasia.
A review committee and the Public Prosecution Service will examine whether the procedure was carried out with due care, meaning scrutiny will only take place after the child has been killed by his or her doctor.
The Netherlands recorded a record number of euthanasia deaths in 2022.
A total of 8,720 reported deaths – including 288 of patients with dementia – represented a 14 per cent increase on the euthanasia deaths from 2021.
It means that 5.1 per cent of all deaths in the Netherlands result from euthanasia.
Belgium already permits the euthanasia of children and Canada is planning similar legislation to allow youngsters to be killed by their doctors.
The Canadian parliament has also approved euthanasia for people suffering from incurable mental illness but has delayed extending the Medical Assistance in Dying programme until 2024 amid a public backlash.
In the online magazine Psyche, Dr Marie Nicolini, a Belgian psychiatrist and ethicist, said there could be no justification for killing people who are mentally ill.
“In a comprehensive review of scientific research on the curability of depression, my colleagues and..............
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We could wipe out most of the political spectrum since the left think the right and the right think the left are mentally ill.
I wonder how it would be received here if Euthanasia was to be approved for LGBQT’s? Asking for a friend... /S
So we fought the Nazis and defeated them to free Europe.
75 years later the Europe we freed wants to be Nazi.
First thing Nazis did was euthanize children.
Maybe the Dutch are following Gates’ directives for population control.
The Luciferian world order is happy. Death and children - their two favorite things.
This is truly frightening. Not only have Europeans stopped reproducing, now they seem bent on killing off the living too.
This is barbaric.
No wonder they call them the Low Countries...low in compassion, low in morality, low on humanity.
I don’t think God will allow this to go on much longer. Historically, he always destroys a culture or a nation once they go after the children in the ways they are doing now. Now, it is world-wide so we can expect world-wide punishment.
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