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Sidd Finch
My understanding of the article, though, was that it was talking about babies born with terminal illnesses -- i.e., those with a few minutes, hours, maybe days to live. Going from killing a baby who will die after a few (excrutiangly painful) hours (or just not treating that baby and letting him or her suffer and die) to "selective breeding" or "kill everyone with a birth defect" is an enormous leap. And one that neither Europe nor America has made despite apparently engaging in the former practice for many years now.
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Those were the 4 cases of children that they euthanized, yes.
But the story states that the panel is also to consider cases of "...the severely mentally retarded"
Tell me this doesn't open a Pandora's Box.
