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Dutch Euthanizers Reflect Progressive Ethic of Death

A study published today in the Dutch Journal of Medicine reveals that doctors in the Netherlands have been killing infants born with disabilities at least since 1997, despite euthanasia of children being illegal in that country.

Today's report cites 22 cases of babies born with spina bifida who were euthanized in the U.K. between 1997 and 2004. In all cases, prosecutors dismissed the cases because doctors had complied with unofficial conditions that are not part of the Dutch legal code.

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As it turns out, what the Dutch are publicizing is nothing new. In hospitals over much of the Western world newborn infants have been deliberately starved in order to cause death for years. However, the boldness of Dutch Euthanizers reflects the cultural acceptance of their actions.

Individuals and societies who are involved in and support abortion and euthanasia view themselves as moral because their actions follow from an ethical standard that both justifies and motivates their decisions. In fact, the humanistic ethic that enables the murder of the unborn or the diseased, when pressed, will find little support in the absolute sense for the sanctity of human life that is not unborn or diseased because such sacredness can only be persuasive when derived from a transcended source (God).

Rejection of God means the acceptance of something else, some other ultimate authority or purpose from which standards for right and wrong are derived. This active replacement of Christian ethics with principles upon which euthanasia is justified has practical consequences and will lead nations to progressively adopt increasingly oppressive practices that target the weak and defenseless.

Posted by tim at January 23, 2005 8:49 AM

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