Something terrible is happening in the land of wooden shoes, windmills, Rembrandt (search) and wonderful breakfasts.
A Dutch hospital is euthanizing — killing — newborn babies who don't measure up to an arbitrary standard set by the hospital. The hospital at first requested guidelines for so-called "mercy killings" of newborns. It then revealed it has been engaging in the practice without any guidelines at all. Three years after the Dutch parliament passed a law allowing doctors to actively kill patients they deemed terminally ill, in great pain and with no prospects for recovery, it has come to this. At least with the elderly sick, they had to be consulted about their wishes. Newborns receive no such privilege.
Teh funnay. "Oh no, newborn babies are being killed because they have a really really poor outlook on the rest of their life."
Right, terrible practice? Possibly. But hey, what standards do you want to set? Basically the decision is the parents' and the doctor has an advisory role.
I'm not surprised.
Once a single category of life is declassified as having no intrinsic value and a right to life, it is a very short step to declassify other categories when they are considered inconvenient, or burdensome.
Muaha. What a bunch of bullshit rhetoric. Every life is considered to have an intrinsic value, but life is defined as being past about 3 months of existence in the womb. People can always request Euthanasia if they feel that living is too painful for them. That's that person's decision.
Holland is a perfect example of what happens when there is no governing moral standard. The Dutch have decriminalized most drugs
No, just soft drugs, ie. 'shrooms and weed.
and people smoke dope openly in venues set aside for the practice.
Exactly. They smoke in venues created to smoke. So...the problem is....what?
Prostitutes display their wares like mannequins in department store windows.
Again: so? Specific places are set aside for this. It happens anyway, why ban it?
And now we have at least one hospital murdering already born babies because someone has decreed them unworthy of life.
No, because someone has decided that their quality of life would be that bad that they'd be better of dead.
If ever there was a slippery slope to be studied, this is it.
The Dutch are now grappling with their open border policy. They have admitted thousands of radical Islamists who have not assimilated and are threatening the stability of the nation.
Thousands of? Threatening our lifestyle? Pft. Idiots.
A Dutch filmmaker (search) was murdered last month by a radical who didn't like a film he made criticizing Islam's treatment of women.
Indeed. And of course this means our entire society is depraved and all muslims should leave the nation. It's their fault!
Psch.
And now we have the killing of newborns. All of this in a country where the Nazis murdered Ann Frank just because she was Jewish and therefore less than human.
Actually, she was murdered in Auschwitz, not the Netherlands. Furthermoe, what the fuck does this have to do with anything? Newborns are murdered in the Netherlands, ooh, Netherlands were once nazi-occupied territoriy. LINK TO HITLER!!! WOOHOOO!
Does history repeat? In Holland, apparently it does.
And that's Column One for this week.
I hate Fox News. That is all.
EDIT: And the news probably isn't true, since I've never heard about it. I suspect that he's basing this on the confusion about the laws around the legality of abortion (the period of pregnancy in which abortion is legal), which happened a few months ago. New techniques had revealed that babies could be removed from the womb and still live at a younger age, and that therefore possibly the abortion period should be shortened.
