Groningen Academic Hospital in the Netherlands has taken up a brave new policy of murdering defenseless, sick babies.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - A hospital in the Netherlands - the first nation to permit euthanasia - recently proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newborns, and then made a startling revelation: It has already begun carrying out such procedures, which include administering a lethal dose of sedatives.Pro-lifers can take grim satisfaction that the "slippery slope" has, as Wesley Smith says later, "descended already into a vertical cliff": in the 1960s, the death lobby argued that we should destroy unborn babies who were going to die anyway, or whose continued existence threatened the life of the mother. Eventually, the death lobby ended up arguing that babies are fair game no matter what the circumstance.The announcement by the Groningen Academic Hospital came amid a growing discussion in Holland on whether to legalize euthanasia on people incapable of deciding for themselves whether they want to end their lives - a prospect viewed with horror by euthanasia opponents and as a natural evolution by advocates.
When pro-lifers pointed out that the West was on that "slippery slope" toward child murder, they were dismissed by most people, including far too many political conservatives. "Nonsense," they said. "Abortion is about removing cell blobs. It's a stretch to say we'd go from that to murdering an infant."
Behold, the masterpiece of the Culture of Death: using men with advanced medical degrees and years of experience to kill the most vulnerable members of our society. If some toothless redneck smothered his baby daughter because she cried too much, we would rightly call him a monster. But if parents can't stand to have a "defective" baby for any longer, even if the baby's pain could be medicated until the end of his short life, and they get well-dressed, well-paid, well-groomed men with serious expressions to murder their child -- well, that's medicine, isn't it?
May God have mercy on the blackened, shriveled souls who would even conceive of such a thing.
My chin about hit the ground at the same time my eyes watered up when I read this story this afternoon. God have mercy on us.
Although I have to ask...am I the only one that's surprised by the lack of an outcry over this? Or am I just reading the wrong things so far?
This is the Nederlands, considering that a 'doctor' there murdered the grandfather of my friends Henk, Edith, Merril-Jane and Inika Reitsema more than a decade and a half ago, without the knowledge or consent of the patient or the family, on the doctor's own opinion of the value of his life, I suspect that these 'doctors' are not telling, let alone asking, the parents. And all mere humans are "terminally ill" from telomere loss if nothing else.
CW, things are that bad. We haven't even broken diplomatic and economic relations with nations engaged in human vivisection on a massive scale that would have made Dr. Mengele salivate, such as Great Britain, Switzerland and California.
I understand that the parents are not given the right to veto the "doctor's" opinion. If he thginks the child shouldn't live, the parents can not stop him.
I understand that the parents are not given the right to veto the doctor's opinion. If he thinks the child should not live, he can just go ahead an kill the baby. Parents can not stop him.
You should have heard the NPR coverage this morning. The reporter interviewed a Dutch doctor. She brought up the Vatican's objections, but did it in such a way that it was simply an invitiation to bash the Vatican. The good doctor explained that the Vatican should really study the law and then they'd understand. Needless to say the reporter didn't challenge this opinion. The whole thing came off like an advertising gimmick.
If I were a member of the Dutch Church I would be surveying surrounding hospitals to find ones who did not have such a brutal policy and do my best to convince pregnant women to schedule their care elsewhere. I would get the staff directory for said hospital and strongly urge the doctors to affiliate elsewhere. I would contact all the local ambulance services and ask them to prefer other hospitals if the patient falls into the age range where a doctor could kill a child without parental consent.
Without children available to kill, without pediatricians to do the killing, the policy merely becomes a moral embarrassment and a hole in the hospital finances.
Sorry to say this, but this isnīt "new" news. Itīs been going on for many years. And the real outrage is that the press is just now looking at it. I suspect partially because there is a Spanish film, "The Sea Inside" (filmed with backing from Spanish industry, govt, and euthanasia groups - but which is really a suicide story) that is up for an Oscar.
Iīve posted on this in the past, but given the attention, if youīll allow me, I grabbed a bunch of the info, links, etc, and put them on one post for people to see that the Netherlands has been killing people, adults and babies for quite a long time now. I repeat: this bit about a hospital killing babies is not new.
Hereīs the link to the post for those who want more information:
Euthanasia In The Netherlands...the dirty secret
Paz
I have a 14 y.o. daughter with a severe form of Epidermolysis Bullosa. Her life is extremely difficult and painful. But to end her life when she was born, isn't my decision - it's God's. She's here for a reason (I still don't know what that is). But she's here, she's mine, and I'm glad.
I find it rather amusing that none of those who have posted comments on this web site seem to have done any other research other than listen to tabloid news. Would it not be fair to say, that your judgemental opinions are also in conflict with the Catholic faith. May i suggest you all spend some time finding out the facts before casting your opinions in future.
I find it rather amusing that none of those who have posted comments on this web site seem to have done any other research other than listen to tabloid news. Would it not be fair to say, that your judgemental opinions are also in conflict with the Catholic faith. May i suggest you all spend some time finding out the facts before casting your opinions in future.
Hi, Chris. Can you be any more specific: which opinions do you think are in conflict with the Catholic Faith?
Also, what factual errors did you want to point out?