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.