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.
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Articles tagged Child Euthanasia
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dutch government funds study to consider child euthanasia
The majority of Netherlands lower chamber has already expressed support for opening euthanasia to children aged 1 to 12.
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A bioethicist’s farcical case for child euthanasia
While claiming the mantle of empirical analysis, bioethicist Tony Hope actually engages in a game of “let’s play pretend.”
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Insane conversations: talking to children about whether they should ask to be euthanised
With child euthanasia legal in Belgium, by some method at some time the child would have need to be made aware of the euthanasia option.
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Bitter irony: children once again to be euthanized in Belgium/Netherlands 70 years after Nazis
In this last week both Belgium and the Netherlands have taken major steps towards euthanasia for children.
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