Wesley J. Smith comments on this alarming report from Flanders News that shows two dreadful things happening in Belgium: 1) the numbers of patients being "euthanized" are being drastically under-reported (perhaps only 25% of the cases are going on record) and 2) more and more patients are getting that poison needle...40% more than just last year!Says Smith,
This is what happens when a country jumps off a vertical moral cliff.
First, the euthanasia numbers are climbing dramatically. Second, the guidelines become virtually meaningless. As we have seen in the Netherlands, once a society countenances medical killing by doctors, the tend to do anyone they think should be euthanized regardless of the guidelines, and then just don’t report their own lawbreaking...
We are told that legalizing euthanasia makes it all so transparent. We are told it will be strictly restrained by legalization to only the most intractable cases. That pretense is clearly not working in Belgium. But will that cause the country to backtrack? Not on a bet. Once medicalized killing is accepted, the details cease to matter.
