Barnadödande i Nederländerna

För dig som hunnit undra över referensen till Holland i mitt förra inlägg, här kommer förklaringen. Jag låter några überbloggers lägga ut texten. Scott Johnson på Power Line börjar:

Our moral superiors in the Netherlands have formulated the Groningen Protocol licensing the termination of those whom their Nazi forebears might have referred to as young defectives.

Det handlar om aktiv dödshjälp av grövsta sorten. Tidningen Grand Forks Herald rapporterar:

Under the Groningen protocol, if doctors at the hospital think a child is suffering unbearably from a terminal condition, they have the authority to end the child’s life. The protocol is likely to be used primarily for newborns, but it covers any child up to age 12.

Washington Times skriver:

In August, the main Dutch doctors’ association KNMG urged the Health Ministry to create an independent board to review euthanasia cases for terminally ill people ”with no free will,” including children, the severely mentally retarded and people left in irreversible comas after accidents. …

The Groningen Protocol, as the hospital’s guidelines have come to be known, would create a legal framework for permitting doctors to actively end the life of newborns deemed to be in similar pain from incurable disease or extreme deformities.

Faktum är doktorer redan dödat flera nyfödda, även innan den nya lagen trätt i kraft. Bill Roggio på The Fourth Rail fortsätter:

After the horrors of Nazi Germany, indifference to the sanctity of life should be unconscionable in the Western world. Yet it appears the lessons of history have gone unlearned. A deeply disturbing story from the Netherlands about the euthanization of children has recently come to light. Parallels between the Dutch child and adult euthanasia programs and the Nazi programs of sterilization and euthanasia can be seen: government sanction, public apathy towards the infirm, the support of medical professionals, the creation of medical and legal panels with the power to decide on life and death, and the absence of decisionmaking powers of the families involved.

Hugh Hewitt får avsluta den utländska rapporteringen:

The establishment of ”independent committees” to dispatch non-consenting humans is nothing but a death penalty committee for innocents. Once begun, it is impossible–simply impossible–to limit the concept with any bright line. Abortion, of course, has always been limited by the physical act of birth, and once out of the womb, only the most extreme ”reproductive rights” advocates have argued that the baby’s natural right to live can be compromised by the mother. But now the Netherlands has gone farther–much, much farther. If the ”severely retarded” may be killed upon appropriate motion, second, debate, and majority vote, why not the moderately retarded? Why not the mildly retarded? Why not, in fact, anyone the ”independent committee” deems as usefully dispatched.

Här ser vi hur avsaknaden av respekt för det mänskliga livet tar sig nya uttryck. Allt i barmhärtighetens namn förstås. Mammans mage har för länge sedan upphört att vara fredad zon. Nu drar dödens vindar även in över BB.

Ps. Glenn Reynolds på InstaPundit meddelar att Peter Singer föga förvånande tycker att barnadråp är helt ok. Men akta er för att döda djur! Och diplomaterna på Diplomad pekar på att man i Nederländerna värnar mer om brottslingars liv. Ds