Pushing Infanticide

Editor’s note. Pro-lifers and all the others who are part of the grassroots coalition against assisted suicide are well aware that assisted suicide is rampant in the Netherlands. What some may not know is that among its victims are newborn babies with serious disabilities. Wesley Smith’s stunning critique ran in the March 2008 edition of National Right to Life News. His very insightful analysis is part of our year-long “Roe at 40” series where we are reprinting the best stories going back to NRL News’ origins in 1973

By Wesley J Smith


Support for infanticide is becoming positively trendy. Where once support for killing babies born with birth defects was a fringe belief, it became respectable even mainstream after doctors from Groningen University Medical Center in the Netherlands admitted in 2004 that they euthanized dying and profoundly disabled babies under the terms of what has come to be called the “Groningen Protocol.”

The Protocol permits doctors to lethally inject three categories of sick or disabled newborn infants:
The baby has no chance of survival (which is sometimes misdiagnosed).

The baby “may survive after a period of intensive treatment but expectation for their future are very grim.”

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