SHOCK: 10% of all babies who die in northern Belgium are euthanized

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SHOCK: 10% of all babies who die in northern Belgium are euthanized
By Wesley J. Smith | October 4, 2021 , 04:37pm

Belgium has no age limit for its euthanasia. Now, a letter published in a British Medical Journal publication reports that 10 percent of babies who died from 2016 to 2017 in Flanders — up to age one — were given drugs by their own doctors with “an explicit life-shortening intention.” In other words, they were euthanized, a.k.a., infanticide. From the study:

While decisions to withdraw life- prolonging treatment are most prevalent, the proportion of infants dying after administration of medication with an explicit life-shortening intention is striking.

I’ll say! Infanticide has, until pretty recently, been considered a profound human-rights abuse.

It would appear that these babies were killed because they did not die right after birth:

Withholding treatment is more prevalent in infants dying in the first week of life (18%) and infants dying due to pregnancy complications with repercussions on fetal health (23%). Medication with explicit life-shortening intention is more prevalent in infants dying between 7 and 27 days (26%) and infants dying of disorders acquired after birth (26%).

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