Sunday, November 05, 20069
Some doctors want to kill babies with severe disabilities
An active euthanasia proposal in the UK that is crossing the line:
The college is arguing for "active euthanasia" to be considered for the overall good of parents, sparing them the emotional burden and financial hardship of bringing up the sickest babies.(via a reader tip)
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jeff barson
"If life-shortening and deliberate interventions to kill infants were available, they might have an impact on obstetric decision-making, even preventing some late abortions, as some parents would be more confident about continuing a pregnancy and taking a risk on outcome."
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Anonymous
These are difficult decisions, but I am convinced it is often inappropriate to intervene medically or surgically except where the suffering relieved is greater than the suffering caused by the intervention or its prolongation of life.
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Cathy
And just who voted these Doctors to have God powers? You do not kill children just because they have disabilities. You have all went crazy!
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Anonymous
Cathy, this is the UK, not the US, but maybe we are all a little bit crazy.
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Anonymous
As distasteful as some people might find this I think it makes perfect sense from a monetary point of view. You can save one child at the price of 100,000 or you can help 10 people for 10,000 each. Health care isn't an infinite resource -- the NHS needs to ration and starting with the weakest or most difficult to help is a good idea (I include the very old and the very sick here too).
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Justbeingreal
What can we expect from a society that approves of killing children still in the womb? We have entered into a culture of death, and it won't stop until we take a stand. Margaret Sanger was a huge supporter of "ethnic cleansing", as well as sterilization of those with disabilities and disorders such as seizures in the hopes of stopping the reproduction of the "lesser classes". She is also the founder of Planned Parenthood. Honestly people, it was only a matter of time.
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Fastolfe
While I can't, in good conscience, support euthanasia for instances like this, it is worth debating. Consider that with all of our medical advances, we are effectively pulling ourselves out of nature's selective processes that have kept our species going for thousands of years without medicine. By successfully treating defects that used to mean death, many of these defects will spread throughout our gene pool. This poses some significant problems for our species' long-term survivability.
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Anonymous
"We have entered into a culture of death, and it won't stop until we take a stand"
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Anonymous
I think this is a great idea. Why raise a child to be useless in society? I certainly do not want a disabled child. If I had one, I would keep it, but only because I had to. If I had the choice, I'd just say 'better luck next time.'
Post a Comment »I can't believe what I'm reading. Forgo an abortion to have a birth and then decide to kill a disabled child?
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Too often have more compassion for our pets than we do humankind.
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Hogwash. We have entered into a culture of prolonging life at any cost without regard to quality. Resources are inappropriately diverted for the purposeless prolongation of life. People must in some cases commit what are perceived to be criminal acts to relieve suffering.
Move into the 21st century and out of the dark ages. Study your history and you will see how ridiculous overboard our society has gone.
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-Adam
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