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March 14, 2006
Death By Committee - A Chilling Protocol
Topics: Life IssuesThe Groningen Protocol is the proposal of doctors in the Netherlands for the establishment of an "independent committee" charged with selecting babies and other severely handicapped or disabled people for euthanasia.
We first started writing about the Groningin Protocol way back in December 2004, with "The Groningen Protocol: Death by Committee." At the time, we referred to an article by Hugh Hewitt in which he suggested that the protocol be entered into history books as shorthand for an appalling brutality. He rated the Groningen Protocol as being qualified for an agenda at the Wannsee Conference, where on January 20, 1942, fifteen high-ranking Nazi party and German government leaders gathered to determine the "final solution" which was the Nazis' code name for the deliberate, carefully planned destruction, or genocide, of all European Jews.
Today, we are seeing the exact same, deliberate, carefully planned destruction (infanticide) of babies and children as was seen as the outcome of the Wannsee Conference. Euthanasia of teenagers and adults is already legal in the Netherlands, and baby euthanasia - already practiced among Dutch doctors, will soon be sanctioned by the government.
The Groningen Protocol is chilling, not only because of its audacity in attempting to judge the worth of human lives but because of its subjectivity in making those judgments. The protocol says that a newborn can be euthanized if his diagnosis and prognosis are "certain," his suffering is "hopeless and unbearable," and his quality of life is "very poor," according to the child's parents and "at least one independent doctor."Read more about what can happen in any nation, including America where it already has occurred, that has lost respect for the intrinsic value of life and the inviolable dignity of the person.That standard assumes that physicians are infallible, our current medical knowledge is complete, and human beings are omniscient. How else could one assess with certainty another's prognosis, experience of suffering, and quality of life?
Hat tip - Lonestar Times
Posted by Richard at March 14, 2006 2:46 PM
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