Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.
The focus this time: “From cradle to grave” in a single day.
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
Canada learned if from the Dutch, and they were attentive students.
“In a more righteous world, allowing infanticide would make the Netherlands a pariah nation, but we have become morally stunted in the West, so what’s a little baby killing among friends? Many (but certainly, not all) in bioethics believe that killing babies that don’t suit us is morally acceptable — and not just Peter Singer. Indeed, the protocol was even published without criticism in the New England Journal of Medicine.
“So, let us not be shocked by Canada’s threatening infanticide rumblings. Instead, let us look clear eyed at the policies that logically follow from eliminating suffering by eliminating the sufferer, and turn back from the metastasizing euthanasia cancer before we lose what remains of our moral compass.
Eugenics is back with euthanizing disabled babied. Yet again, Canada learned well from the Dutch.
“[T]he practice is legal in the Netherlands – the first country to adopt it since Nazi Germany did it in 1939.
“In 2022, Louis Roy from the Quebec College of Physicians raised the notion of euthanasia for babies up to a year old ‘who are born with severe deformations, very grave and severe medical syndromes, whose life expectancy and level of suffering are such that it would make sense to ensure that they do not suffer.’
“While parents already have the option of stopping treatment for babies suffering from medical conditions, the proposal would accelerate the infant’s death, sparking questions about consent.”
Taking eugenics to the next level, apparently having poor parents is a euthanizable disease.
“Canadian physicians will soon be able to legally euthanize infants born into poor families or suffering from underlying health conditions.
“According to the Quebec College of Physicians, MAiD might serve as a viable intervention for infants experiencing intense suffering, with parents deserving the right to pursue this option on behalf of their child.”
TTFN.
