Holland to allow ‘baby euthanasia’

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Well surprise, surprise, Holland is the first country in the world to legally kill their babies.

WHEN Frank and Anita’s daughter Chanou was born with an extremely rare, incurable illness in August 2000, they knew that her life would be short and battled against the odds to make it happy.
They struggled around the clock against their baby’s pain. “We tried all sorts of things,” said Anita, a 37-year-old local government worker. “She cried all the time. Every time I touched her it hurt.”

Chanou was suffering from a metabolic disorder that had resulted in abnormal bone development. Doctors gave her no more than 30 months to live. “We felt terrible watching her suffer,” said Anita at their home near Amsterdam. “We felt we were letting her down.”

Frank and Anita began to believe that their daughter would be better off dead. “She kept throwing up milk that was fed through a tube in her nose,” said Anita. “She seemed to be saying, ‘Mummy, I don’t want to live any more. Let me go’.”

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Also note, that the parents truly believed they were doing the right thing: they even aborted a second child to ‘spare it the suffering of Chanou’, as the second child would have had the same disorder…Here in Britain we have a case in Plymouth where parents are fighting to keep their severely disabled girl ALIVE, but by the same reasoning, these parents feel that their daughter should be SPARED the suffering, and is better off ‘playing in Heaven’…I think if you look at it from a secular view-point, the parents view of ‘I don’t want to see my baby suffer’ makes perfect sense, it’s only when religion comes into play (like with the parents in Plymouth) that they often take the opposite view: ‘I’ll let God decide when to take her’…I feel that although I strongly disagree with what they’ve done: they seem to believe they did what was right for their child…

Anna x
 
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Also note, that the parents truly believed they were doing the right thing: they even aborted a second child to ‘spare it the suffering of Chanou’, as the second child would have had the same disorder…Here in Britain we have a case in Plymouth where parents are fighting to keep their severely disabled girl ALIVE, but by the same reasoning, these parents feel that their daughter should be SPARED the suffering, and is better off ‘playing in Heaven’…I think if you look at it from a secular view-point, the parents view of ‘I don’t want to see my baby suffer’ makes perfect sense, it’s only when religion comes into play (like with the parents in Plymouth) that they often take the opposite view: ‘I’ll let God decide when to take her’…I feel that although I strongly disagree with what they’ve done: they seem to believe they did what was right for their child…

Anna x
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I agree with your reasoning, but I also wonder if subconsciously the parents are also sparing themselves the agony of watching their child suffer. It’s easy for secular parents to say, Let’s end her suffering, it’s the humane thing to do. But do they know they are being selfish by taking the child’s life away? I think if they were to meditate on it, secular as they are, they would realize that only God can take a life.

It’s a pity that only Catholics realize what merit there is to suffering.
 
Verhagen accepts that not everybody feels as he does about euthanasia. “So that’s why we say that deliberate ending of life is never a must. But it can be an option, so long as parents as well as physicians and others are in agreement that it should be an option.”
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This may be what he thinks today however, as time passes, it will come to be considered abusive for parents to ‘allow their children to suffer’ and the state will step in to stop it. This is an extremely dangerous law. It won’t stop with just children either. This law will eventually lead to a change in the meaning of triage: it won’t be who is to be treated first but rather who is worth saving? The more used to this kind of evil that people become the easier it will be to ‘justify’ killing people due to suffering, quality of life, etc…especially in light of the rising cost of health care in most places in the world.

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This may be what he thinks today however, as time passes, it will come to be considered abusive for parents to ‘allow their children to suffer’ and the state will step in to stop it. This is an extremely dangerous law.

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Absolutely! We have a case here in Britain, in Plymouth where a Christian couple are fighting tooth and nail to keep their very sick, severely disabled baby-daughter alive! The girl is a ward-of-court and a judge has decided (over a year ago) that if she stops breathing, she should not be resussitated-because it would prolong her suffering. The parents have appealed against this decision many times, but each time the judges decide that it is in the child’s best interest to die, because her life is nothing but pain and suffering…So, here in Britain we see the exact opposite of the case in Holland: overthere they want the child to die so it will no longer have to suffer, here the law-courts want the child to die, but the parents are running up massive lawyers’ bills trying to keep their daughter alive! She’s 2.5 years old now, and the latest court-case was lost by the parents…again the judge ruled the girl ‘should be allowed to die, to end her short life of suffering’

Anna x
 
While it is scary it is merely another step in a society that is dying. I am sure that the Lord has configued our universe in such a way those who sin will be supplanted by the righteous(ie those who live as nature intended).
The next step in Europe(and US maybe?) will be to eliminate all babies with any genetical defects or predipositions towards robbing and raping, forgetting that these so called genetic accidents are required by nature/evolution to progress and that it is impossible to know the future. You see Europeans now live as if miracles dont exist, and we our going to pay the consequences. The result will be a monotony of similar people living on the same processed food and living pointless secular lives, and these people will eventually die out and be supplanted by vigorous families of Christians(or muslims) from Africa and other poorer places.
Apart from that it does make me sick and we should do all we can to end the dehumanisation of these societies
 
“I don’t want to see my child suffer”
“I think she wants to die”
“I think it would be best”

All statements starting with I…selfish. What if through the child’s suffering we are able to help future generations? What if the child were to overcome the illness? Children are becoming an item on the shelf. If they don’t pass quality control, then get rid of them.
 
The eugenics crusade is progressing, but it needs to be stopped.

PF
 
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