Children are being euthanized in Belgium

[libertybele]

This is very alarming!

Children are being euthanized in Belgium

Deliberately taking a small child’s life is unlawful everywhere in the world, even when the child is terminally ill and asks a doctor to end his or her suffering once and for all.

There is an exception to this rule: Belgium. In 2014, that country amended its law on euthanasia, already one of the most permissive in the world, authorizing doctors to terminate the life of a child, at any age, who makes the request.

For a year after the law passed, no one acted on it. Now, however, euthanasia for children in Belgium is no longer just a theoretical possibility.

Between Jan. 1, 2016, and Dec. 31, 2017, Belgian physicians gave lethal injections to three children under 18, according to a July 17 report from the commission that regulates euthanasia in Belgium.

The oldest of the three was 17; in that respect, Belgium was not unique, since the Netherlands permits euthanasia for children over 12.

Belgian doctors, however, also ended the lives of a 9-year-old and an 11-year-old. These were the first under-12 cases anywhere, Luc Proot, a member of the Belgian commission, told me in an interview.........

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/children-are-being-euthanized-in-belgium/2018/08/06/9473bac2-9988-11e8-b60b-1c897f17e185_story.html?utm_term=.c8665dfe0f95

[musiclady]

This is hideous.

Do you know how many teenagers feel like committing suicide one day and not the next? (Do you remember what it's like to be 13??)

If America is going to pay a price for the slaughter of the innocent (and it will), then Belgium's price will be much steeper.

[Millee]

Horrifying.   

[XenaLee]

This is hideous.

Do you know how many teenagers feel like committing suicide one day and not the next? (Do you remember what it's like to be 13??)

If America is going to pay a price for the slaughter of the innocent (and it will), then Belgium's price will be much steeper.

Belgium seems to be another "hub" of evil these days.  Most teens are drama queens due to the raging hormones.  Taking what they "want" as literal is stupid, at best.... and demonic, at worst.  More sacrifices of the innocent on the altar of Beelzebub?  I jest in serious here.

But.... at least.... I finally found 'something' I could applaud Pope Francis on (wonder of wonders)....

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/pope-orders-belgian-religious-group-to-stop-offering-euthanasia-to-patients-34965

[Suppressed]

This is hideous.

Do you know how many teenagers feel like committing suicide one day and not the next? (Do you remember what it's like to be 13??)

@musiclady

These children were terminally ill.  It's not like they were just going through a phase they'd grow out of.

[libertybele]

@musiclady

These children were terminally ill.  It's not like they were just going through a phase they'd grow out of.

...hmm... terminally ill.  So exactly what does that mean these days?  As a really good example; my father-in-law at 93 years old was diagnosed with bladder cancer and was labeled 'terminally ill'.  He is under Hospice care. However, 18 mos. later, he is still able to live on his own, cook his own meals, take care of his puppy dog, and bathe himself.  Yes he is receiving palliative care, but though he is terminally ill, I would never think, nor would he think that he should be euthanized!

Is euthanizing these kids a convenience to save money??  There are many instances where people have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and have survived comfortably for years.  Some have even beaten their terminal illness. 

[XenaLee]

...hmm... terminally ill. So exactly what does that mean these days?  As a really good example; my father-in-law at 93 years old was diagnosed with bladder cancer and was labeled 'terminally ill'.  He is under Hospice care. However, 18 mos. later, he is still able to live on his own, cook his own meals, take care of his puppy dog, and bathe himself.  Yes he is receiving palliative care, but though he is terminally ill, I would never think, nor would he think that he should be euthanized!

Is euthanizing these kids a convenience to save money??  There are many instances where people have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and have survived comfortably for years.  Some have even beaten their terminal illness.

Think.... "Terri Shiavo".   In many cases, somebody found it more convenient for someone to die.  And the death cult creeps approve.

[thackney]

...hmm... terminally ill.  So exactly what does that mean these days?  As a really good example; my father-in-law at 93 years old was diagnosed with bladder cancer and was labeled 'terminally ill'.  He is under Hospice care. However, 18 mos. later, he is still able to live on his own, cook his own meals, take care of his puppy dog, and bathe himself.  Yes he is receiving palliative care, but though he is terminally ill, I would never think, nor would he think that he should be euthanized!

Is euthanizing these kids a convenience to save money??  There are many instances where people have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and have survived comfortably for years.  Some have even beaten their terminal illness.

More than just terminally ill.

...Doctors must verify that a child is “in a hopeless medical situation of constant and unbearable suffering that cannot be eased and which will cause death in the short term.” After a child makes his or her wish for euthanasia known, in writing, child psychiatrists conduct examinations, including, Proot told me, intelligence tests, to determine that the youngster is capable and “not influenced by a third party.” Parents can, however, prevent the request from being carried out....