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<blockquote data-quote="Victoria" data-source="post: 425562" data-attributes="member: 1258"><p>One more from Focus on the Family, much shorter. They have some interesting things over there on this topic.</p><p></p><p>her than the Nazi example, are there modern nations that have legalized euthanasia? If so, what has been the result?</p><p> Answer</p><p> </p><p></p><p>The nation of Holland has embraced "physician-assisted suicide" with predictable consequences. Although euthanasia is technically illegal, it has been practiced openly for years, with impunity.</p><p></p><p>The killing began with a few terminally ill patients requesting help in dying from their doctors, much like the "service" Dr. Kevorkian performs in the U.S. (Note: Dr. Kevorkian served a prison term and was released on June 1, 2007.) But in Holland today, more than 2,300 people die at the hands of their physicians every year, and the number is growing steadily.207 Even more alarmingly, an estimated one thousand citizens are killed who did not request assistance in dying. The doctors made the decision on their own or else with the prompting of family members.208 The Dutch Committee to Investigate the Medical Practice of Euthanasia reported 14,691 cases where doctors acted on their own initiative to kill a patient -- without the individual's knowledge or consent.209 Elderly patients can never be sure what their doctors have in mind when they come calling.</p><p></p><p>Recently, a physician in the Netherlands killed an infant with spina bifida at the parents' request. He was absolved of any wrongdoing.210 Another doctor was acquitted after assisting in the death of a woman who wasn't even ill.211</p><p></p><p>This is where the slippery slope leads. Whenever the law begins to tolerate the killing of individuals, even those who are terminally ill, that practice will spread and cheapen the value of all human life.</p><p></p><p>207 P.J. van der Maas, J.J.M. van Delden, and L. Pijenbrog, Euthanasia and Other Medical Decisions Concerning the End of Life: An Investigation Performed upon the Request of the Commission of Inquiry into the Medical Practice Concerning Euthanasia (Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers, 1992), 178.</p><p></p><p>208 Ibid., 181.</p><p></p><p>209 Ibid., 73, 75, 183.</p><p></p><p>210 "Doctor Freed in 'Justified' Mercy Killing," Chicago Tribune, 27 April 1995, N21.</p><p></p><p>211 "Doctor Unpunished for Dutch Suicide," New York Times, 22 June 1994, 10A.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Victoria, post: 425562, member: 1258"] One more from Focus on the Family, much shorter. They have some interesting things over there on this topic. her than the Nazi example, are there modern nations that have legalized euthanasia? If so, what has been the result? Answer The nation of Holland has embraced "physician-assisted suicide" with predictable consequences. Although euthanasia is technically illegal, it has been practiced openly for years, with impunity. The killing began with a few terminally ill patients requesting help in dying from their doctors, much like the "service" Dr. Kevorkian performs in the U.S. (Note: Dr. Kevorkian served a prison term and was released on June 1, 2007.) But in Holland today, more than 2,300 people die at the hands of their physicians every year, and the number is growing steadily.207 Even more alarmingly, an estimated one thousand citizens are killed who did not request assistance in dying. The doctors made the decision on their own or else with the prompting of family members.208 The Dutch Committee to Investigate the Medical Practice of Euthanasia reported 14,691 cases where doctors acted on their own initiative to kill a patient -- without the individual's knowledge or consent.209 Elderly patients can never be sure what their doctors have in mind when they come calling. Recently, a physician in the Netherlands killed an infant with spina bifida at the parents' request. He was absolved of any wrongdoing.210 Another doctor was acquitted after assisting in the death of a woman who wasn't even ill.211 This is where the slippery slope leads. Whenever the law begins to tolerate the killing of individuals, even those who are terminally ill, that practice will spread and cheapen the value of all human life. 207 P.J. van der Maas, J.J.M. van Delden, and L. Pijenbrog, Euthanasia and Other Medical Decisions Concerning the End of Life: An Investigation Performed upon the Request of the Commission of Inquiry into the Medical Practice Concerning Euthanasia (Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers, 1992), 178. 208 Ibid., 181. 209 Ibid., 73, 75, 183. 210 "Doctor Freed in 'Justified' Mercy Killing," Chicago Tribune, 27 April 1995, N21. 211 "Doctor Unpunished for Dutch Suicide," New York Times, 22 June 1994, 10A. [/QUOTE]
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