ONE of Britain’s royal medical colleges is calling on the health profession to consider permitting the euthanasia of seriously disabled newborn babies.The proposal by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology is a reaction to the number of such children surviving because of medical advances. The college is arguing that “active euthanasia” should be considered for the overall good of families, to spare parents the emotional burden and financial hardship of bringing up the sickest babies.
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No mention of how the national healthcare system suffers financial hardship in caring for sick babies. That would be crass. But it must have crossed someone's mind.
Posted by Walter at November 5, 2006 08:27 AMThis proposal by UK doctors is immoral no mater how much suffering is involved. We just have no right to kill innocent life who can't defend himself or herself. The article Allowing Euthanasia and Mercy Killing Is Wrong that appears in today's issue of eMaxHealth rightfully argues that "Strongly opposing to the proposal of Euthanasia and Mercy Killing of severely disabled and sick babies, we conclude by asking, if the societies take this road how far will they go, who is next: the severely ill adults, the weak elderly?"