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Netherlands to Allow Euthanasia of Children Under 12 Years Old
Posted on 10/20/20 at 3:09 pm
Posted on 10/20/20 at 3:09 pm
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The Dutch government has announced it will move forward with plans to legalize euthanasia for children under the age of 12, drawing criticism from right-to-life ethicists who have watched as euthanasia has become a growing option in the country.
Health Minister Hugo de Jonge said he will draft legislation to protect doctors from prosecution if they offer euthanasia rather than palliative care to terminally ill children. De Jonge claims the new rules are designed to help a small “group of terminally ill children who agonize with no hope and unbearable suffering.”
But Professor Theo Boer warns that the legalization of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide has made it the “default way to die” in the Netherlands, with a 150% increase in people seeking assisted suicide between 2007 and 2019.
Boer was once a fierce advocate for assisted suicide and euthanasia, and even served as a member on one of the five regional euthanasia review committees in the Netherlands. The committees are meant to assess “whether a physician who has performed euthanasia or assisted in suicide has complied with the due care criteria set out in the Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide (Review Procedures) Act.”
Now a professor of health care ethics in the Netherlands, Boer believes that state-sanctioned euthanasia has fundamentally changed Dutch culture.
“The signal that is being sent to a society is that death is the solution to any form of unbearable and irremediable suffering. … Whereas the law sees assisted suicide and euthanasia as an exception, public opinion is shifting towards considering them rights, with corresponding duties on doctors to act.”
Tim Dieppe, head of public policy at Christian Concern, said in a recent interview that the Dutch government’s willingness to allow the euthanization of young children is a “cruel, dangerous and disturbing development.”
“Even the suggestion to young children that dying is the right option is going to be disturbing and will provoke anxiety,” he said. “Children will feel pressured to die, pressured to allow people to kill them. And parents will feel pressured to kill their children or allow their children to be killed. What an awful thought that is, what an awful example.
“Euthanasia is not the right way round,” he added. “It is not what care is; it is against all medical codes of ethics, all historic codes of ethics, all religious codes of ethics.
“What you’ve got now in the Netherlands is a culture of death, where 4% of deaths are now euthanasia and this shows the prevalence, the normalization of killing people because they are suffering.”
Assisted suicide has been legal in the Netherlands since 2001. Babies under one year and children between the ages of 12 and 15 are already permitted to undergo state-sanctioned assisted suicide as long as the patient is terminally ill and there is parental consent.
Teens ages 16-17 do not currently need parental consent should they choose doctor-assisted suicide.
The Dutch government has announced it will move forward with plans to legalize euthanasia for children under the age of 12, drawing criticism from right-to-life ethicists who have watched as euthanasia has become a growing option in the country.
Health Minister Hugo de Jonge said he will draft legislation to protect doctors from prosecution if they offer euthanasia rather than palliative care to terminally ill children. De Jonge claims the new rules are designed to help a small “group of terminally ill children who agonize with no hope and unbearable suffering.”
But Professor Theo Boer warns that the legalization of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide has made it the “default way to die” in the Netherlands, with a 150% increase in people seeking assisted suicide between 2007 and 2019.
Boer was once a fierce advocate for assisted suicide and euthanasia, and even served as a member on one of the five regional euthanasia review committees in the Netherlands. The committees are meant to assess “whether a physician who has performed euthanasia or assisted in suicide has complied with the due care criteria set out in the Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide (Review Procedures) Act.”
Now a professor of health care ethics in the Netherlands, Boer believes that state-sanctioned euthanasia has fundamentally changed Dutch culture.
“The signal that is being sent to a society is that death is the solution to any form of unbearable and irremediable suffering. … Whereas the law sees assisted suicide and euthanasia as an exception, public opinion is shifting towards considering them rights, with corresponding duties on doctors to act.”
Tim Dieppe, head of public policy at Christian Concern, said in a recent interview that the Dutch government’s willingness to allow the euthanization of young children is a “cruel, dangerous and disturbing development.”
“Even the suggestion to young children that dying is the right option is going to be disturbing and will provoke anxiety,” he said. “Children will feel pressured to die, pressured to allow people to kill them. And parents will feel pressured to kill their children or allow their children to be killed. What an awful thought that is, what an awful example.
“Euthanasia is not the right way round,” he added. “It is not what care is; it is against all medical codes of ethics, all historic codes of ethics, all religious codes of ethics.
“What you’ve got now in the Netherlands is a culture of death, where 4% of deaths are now euthanasia and this shows the prevalence, the normalization of killing people because they are suffering.”
Assisted suicide has been legal in the Netherlands since 2001. Babies under one year and children between the ages of 12 and 15 are already permitted to undergo state-sanctioned assisted suicide as long as the patient is terminally ill and there is parental consent.
Teens ages 16-17 do not currently need parental consent should they choose doctor-assisted suicide.
Posted on 10/20/20 at 3:16 pm to Crimson Wraith
Europe is so fricking backwards.
Posted on 10/20/20 at 3:16 pm to Crimson Wraith
I can’t imagine going through that with your child. Literally the worst thing that could happen.
This post was edited on 10/20/20 at 3:17 pm
Posted on 10/20/20 at 3:17 pm to Crimson Wraith
Dems love to positivily bring up Netherlands in policy.
Posted on 10/20/20 at 3:17 pm to Crimson Wraith
Is this some Nordic/Viking sacrifice stuff going on? Weird as heck.
Posted on 10/20/20 at 3:17 pm to Crimson Wraith
frick. Here we go again.
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help a small “group of terminally ill children who agonize with no hope and unbearable suffering.”
Posted on 10/20/20 at 3:18 pm to Crimson Wraith
quote:
“Even the suggestion to young children that dying is the right option is going to be disturbing and will provoke anxiety,” he said. “Children will feel pressured to die, pressured to allow people to kill them. And parents will feel pressured to kill their children or allow their children to be killed.
This is what concerns me the most. Once you make euthanasia mainstream, you open the door to people feeling pressured into doing "the right thing."
Posted on 10/20/20 at 3:18 pm to Crimson Wraith
So children will be able to be treated as nothing more then glorified pets that can be put down on a whim.
Posted on 10/20/20 at 3:19 pm to Crimson Wraith
To be fair...I was on the beach this past weekend and those squealing kids next to me could have gotten euthanized and I'd have been okay with it
Posted on 10/20/20 at 3:19 pm to Crimson Wraith
In the absence of God...
Posted on 10/20/20 at 3:20 pm to Crimson Wraith
OMG, like kill me!
K.
K.
Posted on 10/20/20 at 3:21 pm to waiting4saturday
These people need Jesus
Posted on 10/20/20 at 3:22 pm to Crimson Wraith
Not too long ago I would have agreed that this is a humane option. I don’t think that way anymore.
Posted on 10/20/20 at 3:27 pm to Crimson Wraith
quote:This is a throwback to the Nazi era. A horror by any measure.
The Dutch government has announced it will move forward with plans to legalize euthanasia for children under the age of 12, drawing criticism from right-to-life ethicists who have watched as euthanasia has become a growing option in the country.
Posted on 10/20/20 at 3:28 pm to Crimson Wraith
If it were up to me I would allow euthanasia of liberals of all ages.
Posted on 10/20/20 at 3:29 pm to Crimson Wraith
Where does the late term/partial birth abortion end and the youth euthanasia begin?
This post was edited on 10/20/20 at 3:29 pm
Posted on 10/20/20 at 3:29 pm to Crimson Wraith
My gosh what is the world coming to?
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