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Europe
Belgium considers euthanasia for children
2004-09-09
Both Super Hose and Korora posted a link for this, but the Reuters link rotted. Below is a link I found on Google that seems to work for now.

What slippery slope?
Belgian lawmakers belonging to Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt's ruling Flemish Liberal party have introduced a bill seeking to expand the country's controversial euthanasia legislation to include minors.
"Just think of it as post-natal abortion..."
Senators Jeannine Leduc and Paul Wille said in the bill that terminally ill children and teenagers had as much right to choose when they wanted to die as anyone else. "Their suffering is as great (and) the situation they face is as intolerable and inhumane," the senators' bill read on Wednesday. A controversial law decriminalising euthanasia came into force in Belgium in September 2002. Patients wishing to end their lives must be conscious when the application is made and repeat their request for euthanasia. Their doctor must fill in a form and consult another physician before making a final decision. Wille and Leduc now also want to include "assisted suicide" in the current legislation as they feel patients often want to end their lives themselves.
Posted by:Steve White

#8  Belgium is to Catholicism as Jenna Jameson is to Mother Teresa.

Do more than one in twenty non-muslim Belgians still attend mass?
Posted by: lex   2004-09-09 5:43:35 PM  

#7  ...And think of the money you'd save bumping off the oldies once they've become useless. And the space to be saved! Goodbye musty old granny flat; hello home office! Permanently disburdening oneself of old folk ought to be in the Charter of Human Rights! Great for the demographically challenged, too!

Euthanasia: making life easier for the survivors. Brought to you by the EU EUthanasia Advancement Project.
Posted by: Bulldog   2004-09-09 5:32:31 PM  

#6  I am sure they didn't have in mind the money they will save on those ill children. Never thought about that. Not a minute
Posted by: JFM   2004-09-09 3:05:03 PM  

#5  IIRC, wasn't there a story recently about the demographic effects of abortion on electoral trends? From a long term view, this sort (Euthanizing Children!!!) of stupidity is ultimately self limiting.

When considererd beside the Euros reaction to the Belsan(sp?) atrocity, this sort of thing should neither surprise or shock. It should only horrify and dissapoint.
Posted by: N Guard   2004-09-09 11:46:36 AM  

#4  What is interesting is that this is a very Catholic country especially the Flemish part. The Belgian Cardinal Geofrey Daneels is one of the favorites for next Pope. All this will do is make the CDC (Catholic Democratics - center right) and Vlamsblok - (right/right) more appealing. Vlamsblok has 33% of Flemish vote already even though they are being kept out of government. To me this will be reverse very soon and Belgium will turn right just like Denmark and the Netherlands are doing - all because of this LLL sicko cultural politics, immigration and the WoT.
Posted by: Jack is Back   2004-09-09 9:09:44 AM  

#3  Children aren't competent to make decisions. That's why they're NOT FUCKING ADULTS!

I'm not religious, I'm not even Christian, but on euthanasia I'm with the evangelicals. It's a form of predation on the depressed and vulnerable by the ghoulishly well-meaning and scary control-freaks.
Posted by: Mitch H.   2004-09-09 8:45:12 AM  

#2  We want pedophiles like this as allies in the fight against Islamofascism? Sounds like they've already joined the other side.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2004-09-09 7:25:59 AM  

#1  Coming soon: pediatric assisted suicide. Will there be parental notification?
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-09-09 4:27:38 AM  

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