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By Michael Cook Editor’s note. This was first reposted this past May. The Dutch Health Minister, Edith Schippers, has earmarked almost 400,000 Euros for a study of whether to expand eligibility for euthanasia to children between 1 and 12. At the moment, children under...
By Paul Russell, Founder, HOPE Australia The Daily Mail in Scotland has a front page article claiming that Scottish Children’s Charities have called for the inclusion of euthanasia for children to be included in the reach of the euthanasia bill under debate in...
By Dave Andrusko Back in February British Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he would investigate allegations by a retired doctor that sick children were being euthanized. That charge by Michael Irwin came literally hours after the Belgian legislature voted to...
By Dave Andrusko Earlier today we posted a short article by Michael Cook, whose analyses are always worth reading, summarizing a piece that ran this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association (“US bioethicists take Belgian child euthanasia to...
By Michael Cook Three American bioethicists have criticized Belgium’s new law permitting children with a terminal illness to choose euthanasia. Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Art Caplan and two colleagues argue that children do not...
Roger Kiska contends child euthanasia in Belgium is bad law and may be contagious . . . By Roger Kiska When Europe coughs, America catches a cold. The legal, political and cultural landscape in the U.S. is fertile for the importation of bad legislation like a...
By Wesley J. Smith Sometimes life gives me emotional whiplash. On one hand, a little Canadian girl named Emma narrates a sweet short film about her younger brother Teddy, disabled by cerebral palsy. Teddy is valued and loved. From the New York Times op/ed...
By Dave Andrusko It’s odd, at least in a sense. Beginning with the vote by the 50-17 Belgian Senate in December, followed by an equally lopsided 86-44 vote in the Belgian Chambers of Representatives last month, there was no question that the minimal age...
By Paul Russell The Belgian Parliament amended its euthanasia law on February 14, making it available to children. One commentator incorrectly, but poignantly, called it a ‘Valentine’s Day Massacre’. Most, however, questioned whether children were capable of...
By Wesley J. Smith Good grief, assisted suicide isn’t even legal in California, and yet a regular Los Angeles Times contributor wants child euthanasia of the kind recently enacted in Belgium legalized in the Golden State. From the column, by Scott Martelle:...