Comment: Do you really think that 5-year olds who have not even reached the age of reason can make good decisions, or will be able to withstand pressure from doctors and nurses who want to kill them? And if you’re not aware that euthanasia is now a preoccupation of Belgian health workers, read the final paragraphs of this post. Euthanasia is spiraling out of control there. If this is what Europeans mean by being ‘more civilized’, you can keep your ‘civilization’ on your side of the pond.
“The Belgian Senate voted today 50-17 to extend euthanasia to children with disabilities, in a move pro-life advocates worldwide had been fearing would come and expand an already much-abused euthanasia law even further.”
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“The vote today in the full Senate comes after a Senate committee voted 13-4 to allow minors to seek euthanasia under certain conditions…No age limit would be set, but the children who are euthanized would have “to possess the capacity of discernment.””
“…While euthanasia is legal in a handful of countries in Europe, Belgium is the first country in the world to lift all age restrictions on the practice. In 2012, Belgium recorded 1,432 cases of euthanasia – a 25% increase from 2011.”
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““Currently the Belgian euthanasia law limits euthanasia to people who are at least 18 years old. This unprecedented bill would extend euthanasia to children with disabilities,” says Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. “The Belgian Socialist government is adamant that the euthanasia law needs to extend to minors and people with dementia even though there is significant examples of how the current law is being abused and the bracket creep of acceptable reasons for euthanasia continues to grow. The current practice of euthanasia in Belgium appears to have become an easy way to cover-up medical errors.””
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“There is enormous concern about abuses under the expanded euthanasia law.”
“Research conducted by the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) in 2010 found that 32% of euthanasia deaths in the Flanders region of Belgium occurred without an explicit request.”
“…Recent studies [in Belgium] indicate that up to 47% of all assisted deaths are not being reported, 32% of all assisted deaths are being done without request and nurses are killing their patients, even though the law restricts euthanasia to doctors.”
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“Dr Wim Distelmans, who is the leading euthanasia doctor in Belgium has also been the chairman of the Belgium euthanasia commission for more than 10 years, and the commission has been stacked with supporters of the euthanasia lobby.”
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Belgium: Senate Approves Measure Allowing Doctors to Euthanize Children
by Steven Ertelt
12/12/13
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/12/belgium-senate-approves-measure-allowing-doctors-to-euthanize-children/