Belgium Falling Faster than the Netherlands
Belgium only legalized euthanasia a few years ago and it is already catching up with the Netherlands' fall off the vertical moral cliff. One of the ruling parties is calling for permitting euthanasia to minors under 18 and for parents to permit the mercy killing of their children. It took the Dutch some 20 years to get where the Belgiums have in just 2 or 3. Doctors in Flemish areas have also caught up with the Dutch in the rate of infanticide, according to a recent study in the Lancet, about 8% of all infants who die each year.
But that is what happens when you redefine killing from bad to good. The guidelines that were intended to protect the vulnerable come to be seen instead as hurdles standing in the way of the good of death.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 7:46 PM
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3 Comments:
No, you are looking at it from the wrong angle. People should not have the right to engage in the joint enterprise of killing on another. Nor is killing a medical act. And our approach to suicide desire should be prevention, not facilitation.
Of course, if you believe that we "own our own lives" and that settles the matter, than there should be suicide on demand, no questions asked.
Winston, since you have several times belittled the possibility of abuse in legalized euthanasia, I think it's high time that you investigate both what has occurred already (particularly in Europe) and arguments showing how the likelihood of abuse is inherent in the concept. Wesley's book Forced Exit is an excellent place to start.
I don't think Winston cares about abuses, based on comments about people owning their own bodies.
Besides, guidelines to protect against abuses are merely for show. They aren't really meant to be enforced.
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