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Post by Maggie on Jan 23, 2014 8:16:51 GMT -6
The American Thinker has published an article on Belgium's love affair with killing. There isn't too much new here but it is always shocking to read the numbers and to consider the attitude of those who kill so lightly. Even within the European pro-death context, Belgium has gone stark raving mad.
Belgium legalized euthanasia in 2002, its proponents piously declaring that the law was necessary because (a) people had the right to ask to be killed, and (b) that euthanasia was already happening and needed to be legalized so that it could be regulated. As had happened earlier in the Netherlands, the Belgian pro-deathers trumpeted the "safeguards" within the law -- for example, that euthanasia was for a very limited few: those of a sound mind older than 18, suffering a terminal incurable physical illness, and where there was absolute no medical way to alleviate suffering.
In short order, the "safeguards" were circumvented and then completely ignored ...
Unsurprisingly, euthanasia deaths skyrocketed by more than 500% between 2002 and 2013 -- often ignoring the state's "safeguards." For example, a 2010 report in the Canadian Medical Association Journal noted that 32% of euthanasia deaths in one area of Belgium were carried out without the patient ever having requested it. ...
The acceptance of medicalized killing has also resulted in a Belgian first: The developing of a medical protocol for harvesting the organs of euthanized patients, twisting the act of killing into an altruistic act of selfless mercy, and is considered standard medical treatment.
Now comes legalized euthanasia for children. What will stop the bloodshed, I wonder? How does a nation so deaden its conscience that it smiles on such practices? In Nazi Germany some Germans really didn't know about the killing going on under their noses. Does a single Belgian anywhere on the planet have the same excuse? |
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Post by Woodrow LI on Jan 23, 2014 8:58:35 GMT -6
Euthanasia when sanitized and white-washed looks like a blessing. The reality is it is a curse.
While death is nothing we should fear, it is nothing we should seek. It is something that has to be earned through obedience to God(swt). To seek death as a means to end pain only opens the door to eternal pain.
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Post by Maggie on Feb 14, 2014 11:46:52 GMT -6
Well, those wacky, fun-loving Belgians have done it. They have passed a law allowing the euthanasia of children. The Guardian reports: The law lifts Belgium's age restrictions on euthanasia and can sanction it where children have a terminal and incurable illness, are near death, and suffering "constant and unbearable physical" pain, and where parents and professionals agree to the choice.
The law was opposed by some Belgian paediatricians and the country's leading Roman Catholic cleric.
The law will come into effect when signed by Belgium's monarch, King Philippe, who is not expected to oppose the measure. ...
Children will have to be interviewed by a paediatric psychiatrist or psychologist, who must determine that the child possesses "the capacity of discernment", and then certify that in writing.
When one considers that doctors in Belgium and in the Netherlands already kill children with or without the consent of the parents (who do not have the right to be complicit in murder in any case), one is hard pressed to believe that the protocols that supposedly protect the children will be observed. Somehow, the lust for blood is never sated. |
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Post by Woodrow LI on Feb 14, 2014 17:17:55 GMT -6
Once the door is opened for euthanasia the easier it becomes to find reasons to use.
"Doctor, doctor my little 5 year old son is doing poorly in kindergarten. He is going to have a terrible life and will end up as a homeless derelict on the street.. You need to help him."
"No problem Mrs Jones, in today's modern world we can correct the errors caused by birth. We can give your son a beautiful Euthanasia ceremony followed by a lovely funereal. He can enjoy his last week of life and never face all those horrors."
'Oh Thank you doctor that sounds so lovely. I will go home and prepare Johnny for his euthanasia so he will look forward to it. He will be so happy to know he won't ever be homeless."
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Post by Maggie on Feb 14, 2014 20:28:26 GMT -6
Yes, they are on a slippery slope for real. Well, the Germans have a saying, "Wer nicht hören will, muss fühlen", i.e. if you won't listen, you will have to find out the hard way. (spanking, bitter experience, etc.) The Belgians are no longer open to reason and haven't been for decades. This cannot end well, but it will end.
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