According to reports, parents can decide to have their child euthanized in conjunction with a doctor even if the child is unwilling or unable to consent.
Considering how far down the slope we have progressed in just a few years, there is good reason to suspect that child euthanasia is on the horizon—and sooner than we think.
Two previous High Court judgments blocked Indi Gregory's transfer to Italy for specialist treatment and ruled that it is in her ‘best interests’ to die.
A bill introduced by Liberal party congressman Juan Carlos Losada proposed, among other things, that children ages six and older who have 'a serious and incurable illness or bodily injury that causes intense physical or mental suffering' can be killed.
The Dutch government hopes to extend an existing protocol which allows the euthanasia of newborn babies to be available to children under 12 years old.
Their purpose is to persuade readers that later-term abortion should be available in case a child is diagnosed with an anomaly, or a disability, or a deformity.
Abel is severely disabled, he is deaf, lives with a severe intellectual disability and has daily intestinal problems and has already come close to death several times, prompting his mother to petition for child euthanasia.
Essentially, these doctors are claiming that young people, who do not have the right to vote or buy cigarettes, should be given the right to ask a doctor to kill them.