by Wesley J. Smith |
I
reported the other day that the Dutch Medical Association (KNMG) now justifies
the infanticide of seriously ill and dying babies as a means of ending the
parents’ suffering.
Now,
we see that the purpose of the new guideline was to induce doctors to report
their baby killing to the authorities. From the British Medical Journal report:
The
Royal Dutch Medical Association has published professional standards to try to
clarify the line between palliative care of terminally ill newborn babies and
deliberately killing them. Driving the move is the apparent failure of doctors
to report cases of mercy killing of newborn babies to the government’s expert
review committee of physicians, lawyers, and ethicists, to which all such cases
are meant to be reported.
As
with the Dutch policy on euthanasia, doctors who report and adhere to guidelines
will not be prosecuted. However, since its launch in 2006 the Central Experts
Committee has received only one case involving a newborn baby. Originally up to
20 reports a year were expected.
Wesley J. Smith, J.D., is a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture and a bioethics attorney who blogs at Human Exceptionalism.
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