Post-Birth Babies Killed in the Netherlands

For decades, abortion foes have been making one major claim which abortion advocates have laughed off the stage: Aborting unborn babies will inevitably lead to the devaluation of life and then the killing of babies after birth. Some would say that Partial Birth abortion already proves this point, but for those who do not, let us present the first story in a long time that has nearly brought the Nomad to tears.

A hospital in the Netherlands - the first nation to permit euthanasia - recently proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newborns, and then made a startling revelation: It has already begun carrying out such procedures, which include administering a lethal dose of sedatives...Three years ago, the Dutch parliament made it legal for doctors to inject a sedative and a lethal dose of muscle relaxant at the request of adult patients suffering great pain with no hope of relief. The Groningen Protocol, as the hospital's guidelines have come to be known, would create a legal framework for permitting doctors to actively end the life of newborns deemed to be in similar pain from incurable disease or extreme deformities. The guideline says euthanasia is acceptable when the child's medical team and independent doctors agree the pain cannot be eased and there is no prospect for improvement, and when parents think it's best.

How can this nation be from the same "Western Civilization" that spawned America and the peoples who colonized her? This is horrible beyond words, and a sign that people have lost even the most basic understandings of morality. The cessation of pain is not the only goal of a society, a people, or a moral code. Life is a value beyond all others. My father died of brain cancer. He was spared the agony that others must endure, but towards the end he was enduring a life that was at best a shadow of its former self. Yet, he regarded life itself as a beautiful gift from God. How is that those of us who are healthy feel we have the right to take it away or cast it into the garbage?