LA Times: “Let’s Kill The Sick Kids. Belgium Is Doing It”
Therealrevo.com
February 17, 2014
One way to reduce health-care costs is to kill the patients. The Times supports this.
“Extend assisted suicide to children? Belgium says yes; so should we.”
The Belgian government this week approved new measures allowing the euthanasia of terminally ill children, a decision that on first reading would make most of us gasp.
It is a distressing concept, and the idea of helping a child die sounds incredibly cold and morally and ethically unsound — until you dive into the issue. While it raises painful and conflicting emotions, and choices, the Belgians — who have pushed assisted suicide to the edge before — are on the right, groundbreaking track.
As one might expect, it was a highly controversial issue, and the bill was opposed by the Roman Catholic Church as well as some pediatricians.
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