tim_duncan2000
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Who are they to decide whether a child lives or dies? How do they decide which medical conditions are bad enough?The Groningen Protocol, as the hospital's guidelines have come to be known, would create a legal framework for permitting doctors to actively end the life of newborns deemed to be in similar pain from incurable disease or extreme deformities.
The guideline says euthanasia is acceptable when the child's medical team and independent doctors agree the pain cannot be eased and there is no prospect for improvement, and when parents think it's best.
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.
The hospital revealed last month it carried out four such mercy killings in 2003, and reported all cases to government prosecutors. There have been no legal proceedings against the hospital or the doctors.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...30/ap_on_re_eu/netherlands_child_euthanasia_3
I don't think this crap should ever be allowed. I often don't like slippery slope arguments because they are often fallacies, but where would it end? Would they do this to children with various disabilities (blindness, Down's syndrome, etc)? I just don't see how anyone can justify this.