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March 27, 2006
Killing Babies 'Compassionately'
Topics: Life IssuesAs we've posted on numerous times before, most recently on March 14, the Groningen Protocol is the proposal of doctors in the Netherlands to establish 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.
Now, the Netherlands is outraged at the gall of comparing their proposed eugenics program as Nazi-like.
AT LAST A HIGH GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL in Europe got up the nerve to chastise the Dutch government for preparing to legalize infant euthanasia. Italy's Parliamentary Affairs minister, Carlo Giovanardi, said during a radio debate: "Nazi legislation and Hitler's ideas are reemerging in Europe via Dutch euthanasia laws and the debate on how to kill ill children."Read more at Jack Lewis.Net ...Unsurprisingly, the Dutch, ever prickly about international criticism of their peculiar institution, were outraged.
As Danny Carlton so aptly points out, at at JL, "We (the blogosphere) defend(ed) the Netherlands for publishing cartoons anyone with one eye and half sense would know would offend Moslems, on the grounds that it's "free speech" to offend people you don't like. But when it comes to pointing out the truth that the Dutch are progressively adopting Nazi policies of eugenics, why (is that out of bounds)?
Of course, it isn't out of bounds and we in the blogosphere will damned well continue to address the issue.
Posted by Richard at March 27, 2006 10:18 AM
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