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| Belgium Moves Closer to Euthanasia for Minors |
| 2013-06-22 |
| [An Nahar] Belgian politicians on Thursday moved closer to legalising the euthanasia of minors, so long as they are judged capable of deciding for themselves. Another step closer to post-natal abortion. Four senators from parties in the governing coalition formally put forward changes to a 2002 law that made Belgium the second country in the world after The Netherlands to legalise mercy killing in certain cases. If post-natal abortion to the age of 23 had been around, how many of us would have made it through our teenage years? Their parties said they would back the changes and parliament is likely to approve them in coming months. Euthanasia is currently legal only for those aged 18 but experts have told parliament that in practice euthanasia on children was already taking place, without any set guidelines. Changes to the law were submitted for debate in parliament in December and politicians have been discussing them there since February. Discussions have centred on the minimum age should the law be changed, and senators on Thursday settled on a young person's "capacity to discern", which would be assessed by a psychiatrist. The proposals have the support of the four senators' parties although they will be opposed by two of the other parties in the senate majority -- the Christian Democrat, Phlegmish speaking CD&V and the centrist but Christian-inspired Frenchie-loving CDH. They are then expected to win a parliamentary majority in the following months with several parties saying they would back them. A separate issue of whether to extend the law to those suffering from a mental deficiency remains unresolved. Belgium recorded a record 1,432 cases of euthanasia in 2012, up 25 percent from the previous year. They represented two percent of all deaths. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Part of the reason for the American disparity in male life expectancies among Western countries. It's gotta be the Fred Jackson Turner.... equalitarianism, disinterest in high culture, and violence, it's always Fred Jackson Turner. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-06-22 17:58 |
| #5 Its very simple. If a person is willing to kill a child, then the elderly is a given. The only question at that point is where is the line, and it is always drawen with a 6H quite lightly and with plenty of erasers handy. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2013-06-22 11:17 |
| #4 Belgian politicians on Thursday moved closer to legalising the euthanasia of minors,... This is a big issue for the voters? And nothing else to worry about? What do we conclude from this? That it's cheaper to put them in gas chambers than to give them antidepressants? |
| Posted by: Harry the Rasher1329 2013-06-22 09:51 |
| #3 It's sort of practiced naturally in America as young males 13-24 have a tendency to off themselves at a much higher rate than most other Western countries. Call it the 'here hold my beer' or the Chicago Hood syndrome. Part of the reason for the American disparity in male life expectancies among Western countries. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-06-22 08:27 |
| #2 If post-natal abortion to the age of 23 had been around, how many of us would have made it through our teenage years? Excellent point, which leads me to the next question. How do now survive Obamacare? [which is little more than a gummit adaptation of seniors euthanasia] |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-06-22 04:40 |
| #1 Belgium Moves Closer to Euthanasia for Minors should read The World is Moving Closer Condemning and Euthanizing All Belgians - Since it has become a fascist, Anti-Christian nation - state the difference between WWII Nazis and the present people in power: eliminate the weak to make the nation stronger ? Immigrants since 1945 and their descendants are estimated by 2008 to have formed 22% of the total population. Of these ‘New Belgians’, 1,313,000 (56%) are of European ancestry and the 950,000 others originated from the rest of the world. The prevalent foreign nationals were Italian (171,918), French (125,061), Dutch (116,970), Moroccan (80,579), Spanish (42,765), Turkish (39,419) and German (37,621). The ones in bold print were nations of the Axis powers of WWII, has any of this "purification" philosophy rubbed off on the present inhabitants ? You can call yourselves Christian, but frankly there is nothing Christian about you or your philosophy. Bastards. |
| Posted by: Shomp Glert7500 2013-06-22 04:30 |