December 01, 2004
Dutch on the Slippery Slope
Back in the years preceeding WWII in Europe, Germany began the routine practise of eradicating euthanizing the undesireable infants, the phyisically deformed, the mentally ill, the intellectually retarded, the aged, and eventually those with criminal tendencies as a means of purifying the nordic gene pool and building their "Master Race" for their eventual bid for complete European domination.
Asylums, nurseries, hospitals and pension homes were emptied and their tenants were incinerated after they had been exterminated euthanized for their own good, and the good of the German people. They were a strain on the economy, not to mention a weakening of the fine genetics that were prized by the Nazi eugenists.
And we all know what happened next. Homosexuals, Gypsies, Jews, all deemed impure and undesirable in their great experiment were also swept up in this murderous drive and killed in huge numbers. And then the Poles, and Catholics, and anyone who was politically undesirable.
How did it start again? Oh, I remember. It started with babies.
"In August, the main Dutch doctors' association KNMG urged the Health Ministry to create an independent board to review euthanasia cases for terminally ill people "with no free will," including children, the severely mentally retarded and people left in an irreversible coma after an accident."
Sound familiar? It should. History doesn't always repeat, but it always rhymes.
"Examples include extremely premature births, where children suffer brain damage from bleeding and convulsions; and diseases where a child could only survive on life support for the rest of its life, such as severe cases of spina bifida and epidermosis bullosa, a rare blistering illness."
Do you also suppose they plan to include other disorders? Cystic Fibrosis? How about birth-injuries like Cerebral Palsy? Will that be next, or is it just not listed but being done now? Hydrocephalis? Down's Syndrome?
Can you say "Slippery Slope"?
YIKES!!!
Posted by: K-Squared at December 1, 2004 05:20 AMDoctors with a God complex are dangerous. Doesn't anyone remember the Hippocratic Oath anymore? "Above all do no harm." Doctors are there to help people not to decide that some people don't need help. Some common excuses are: Because they(patients) are going to die soon anyway, or that the patients' quality of life is poor. It's not the doctors' place to make this choice. It is the parents' responsibility.
Emily Nelson
Posted by: Emily Nelson at December 1, 2004 02:50 PMWhy cant they Euthanise the Islamist scum who whacked VanGogh?
I see both sides of the euthanasia issue my brother died from AIDS at 32 and the last month was ugly.I would have wanted a shot if it had been me .
But I would have made the decision.
I would make that decision regardless what the Govts position.
Ciao