As I reported previously, Quebec will be debating the legalization of euthanasia — not assisted suicide — a bill that does not limit medicalized killing to dying patients. But don’t tell that to so-called journalists, who are busily about the task of badly misstating what the proposal would permit. I mentioned a Toronto Star example [...]
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Despite infanticide still being murder under (the rarely enforced) Netherlander criminal code, the Dutch Medical Association (KNMG) has issued an ethics opinion holding that doctors may euthanize dying babies to end the parents’ suffering. From the story (Google translation): When parents [of a dying child] can not stand it anymore, physicians may hasten death, the [...]
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