sacbee.com -- Health & Science News -- Netherlands hospital euthanizes babies
This I find to be startling...and scary. And the worst part is this...
However, experts acknowledge that doctors euthanize routinely in the United States and elsewhere, but that the practice is hidden.
"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."
More than half of all deaths occur under medical supervision, so it's really about management and method of death, Stell said.
If anything positive can be said about the Dutch proposal...it would be the fact that it was made publicly. It's almost as if they are hoping that there will an outcry of revulsion and they will have to stop the practice. I hope that outcry comes...
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