"Extreme disability" as a reason for euthanasia with just born is something, I'm totally objected to.
This not only, because of the traumatising history we hahd had here in Germany with such or the fact that I was in charge of a home for (mainly) young disabled, have a diabled sister-in-law etc.
Disabilty can be observed during pregnacy, and (in most countries) in such cases abortion is legally possible until nearly the end.
"Terminally ill" surely will have to be defined - and I'm more than sure that it is in the Netherlands.
Quote:"Measures that might marginally extend a child's life by minutes or hours or days or weeks are stopped. This happens routinely, namely, every day," said Lance Stell, professor of medical ethics at Davidson College in Davidson, N.C., and staff ethicist at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C. "Everybody knows that it happens, but there's a lot of hypocrisy. Instead, people talk about things they're not going to do."
source: Newsday via
plastic.com
And may I remind that
Quote:Groningen estimated the protocol would be applicable in about 10 cases per year in the Netherlands, a country of 16 million people.
