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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
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.
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Read the story again.
"In August, the main Dutch doctors' association KNMG urged the Health Ministry to create an independent board to review euthanasia cases for terminally ill people "with no free will," including children, the severely mentally retarded, and people left in an irreversible coma after an accident."
In other words, they are proposing a means to determine if people facing a terminal illness who do not have the "free will" or mental capacity to make the decision should be euthanized. No one is proposing euthanizing "the severely mentally retarded"
because they are severly mentally retarded, anymore than they are proposing euthanizing "children" because they are children.
The four examples they cite give an indication of the kinds of diseases being considered as giving rise to such a review.
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