Child Euthanasia Archives

Terminally ill children in the Netherlands can now be euthanized against their will

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.

News

Bridget Sielicki

• Feb 12, 2024Feb 13, 2024

As Australian state looks to expand euthanasia, activists are clamoring to include children

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.

Blogs

Jonathon Van Maren

• Jan 10, 2024

Time running out: Italian consul makes last-minute attempt to save baby Indi Gregory

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.

News

Christian Concern

• Nov 9, 2023Nov 9, 2023

Bill proposed in Colombia to euthanize sick, disabled children as young as 6

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.

Blogs

Jonathon Van Maren

• Dec 2, 2022

Dutch gov’t proposes expanding assisted suicide to children under age 12

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.

News

Alex Schadenberg

• Jun 30, 2022

Heartbreaking abortion stories in the media are meant to normalize ‘compassionate eugenics’

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.

Blogs

Jonathon Van Maren

• Apr 28, 2022

Québec mother wants her 4-year-old son to die by euthanasia: ‘No possibility that his quality of life will improve’

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.

Opinion

Alex Schadenberg

• Aug 24, 2021

Doctors propose killing sick children under Canada’s new euthanasia law

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.

Blogs

Jonathon Van Maren

• Sep 24, 2018Jun 18, 2021

Canadian activists now pushing to euthanize children

Those in charge may be using the symposium to develop a policy for when the killing begins. Wine and cheese will follow.

News

Alex Schadenberg

• Feb 28, 2018Jun 18, 2021

First minor killed by euthanasia in Belgium after child euthanasia legalized

A teen became the first minor to die under Belgium's 2014 child euthanasia law.

News

Claire Chretien

• Sep 19, 2016Jun 18, 2021

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Articles tagged Child Euthanasia

Terminally ill children in the Netherlands can now be euthanized against their will

As Australian state looks to expand euthanasia, activists are clamoring to include children

Time running out: Italian consul makes last-minute attempt to save baby Indi Gregory

Bill proposed in Colombia to euthanize sick, disabled children as young as 6

Dutch gov’t proposes expanding assisted suicide to children under age 12

Heartbreaking abortion stories in the media are meant to normalize ‘compassionate eugenics’

Québec mother wants her 4-year-old son to die by euthanasia: ‘No possibility that his quality of life will improve’

Doctors propose killing sick children under Canada’s new euthanasia law

Canadian activists now pushing to euthanize children

First minor killed by euthanasia in Belgium after child euthanasia legalized