Quote from Anna,
"Quite frankly, Bert, I don't believe you."
Let's move on to the next point in my thread - killing children.
I will refer to the
very first web site I opened:
Child euthanasia
all this stuff is a Google click away ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_euthanasia
Child euthanasia is a controversial form of euthanasia that is applied to children who are
gravely ill or suffer from significant birth defects.
... Joseph Fletcher, founder of situational ethics and a euthanasia proponent,
proposed that
infanticide be permitted in cases of severe birth defects.
Fletcher says that unlike the sort of infanticide perpetrated by very disturbed
people, in such cases
child euthanasia could be considered humane; a
logical and acceptable extension of abortion*.[3] American
bioethicist Jacob Appel goes one step further, arguing that
pediatric euthanasia
may be ethical even in the absence of parental consent.[4]
Bioethicists Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva argue that killing a newborn
"
should be permissible in all the cases where
abortion is, including cases where the newborn is
not disabled".[5
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, in its submission, recommended
that a public debate be started around the options of "non-resuscitation, withdrawal
of treatment decisions, the best interests test and active euthanasia" for "the sickest
of newborns".[9] The College stated that there should be discussion over whether "
deliberate
intervention" to cause death in severely disabled newborn babies should be legalised; it
stated that while it was not necessarily in favour of the move, it felt the issues should be
debated. The College stated in this submission that having these options would save some
families from years of emotional and financial suffering; it might also reduce the number of
late abortions, "as some parents would be more confident about continuing a pregnancy and
taking a risk on outcome".[9] In response to this proposal, Pieter Sauer, a senior paediatrician
in the Netherlands, argued that British neonatologists already perform "mercy killings" and
should be allowed to do so openly.[9]
The Church of England submission to the enquiry supported the view that doctors should be
given the right to withhold treatment from seriously disabled newborn babies in exceptional
circumstances, and the Christian Medical Fellowship stated that when
treatment
would be "a burden" this was not euthanasia*.On February 13, 2014, Belgium became the first country to allow child euthanasia without any
age limit.Child Euthanasia (German:
Kinder-Euthanasie) was the name given to the organised murder of severely
mentally and physically handicapped children and young people up to 16 years old during the
Nazi
era in over 30 so-called special children's wards. At least 5,000 children were victims of this
programme,
which was a precursor* to the subsequent murder of children in the concentration camps.* EXAMPLES OF SLIPPERY SLOPE.