Dutch Euthanasia is Killing – National Review

Apologists for euthanasia in the Netherlands often lie by omission. Rarely, for example, do they fully admit that the mentally ill are being killed. Nor do they discuss the conjoining of euthanasia with organ harvesting. Perhaps it a case of not seeing what they dont want to see.

A piece by Dutch journalist Hasna El Maroudi, reacting against a Wall Street Journal op/ed by a Dutch parliamentarianwarning that activists want to now extend authority for euthanasia to thehealthy elderly who believe they havea completed lifeis a classic case in point.

El Maroudi decries the use of killing to describe euthanasia. From, In the Netherlands, Doctors Care How You Live and Die, published in the Huffington Post.

Doctors dont kill their patients, they assist them with ending their lives. The difference between the two might not be clear to the dense, but is of great importance. If doctors would kill their patients, they would be punishable by law.

By framing euthanasia as killing, conservatives have long tried to block legislation, unsuccessfully. They fought the battle and lost. Now that the kill-frame has proven a failure, theyre going with something new, trying to turn back the hands of time by using fake news. Or as I like to say: constructed lies.

Well, no. The definition of killing is to cause death or to end lifewhich is accurate and descriptive of what happens when a doctor injects poison into a patients bloodstream. Indeed, it is homicideno different in outcomee.g. killingthanif the doctor shot the patient in the head.

Euthanasia apologists try to convince people that because most of those are killed in euthanasia have proffered at least some level of consent, it isnt really killing. Again false.

In the Netherlands, doctors put more than 400people to death each yearperhaps El Maroudi will accept that descriptive?who have not asked to die. It is called termination without request or consent in the Dutch euthanasia lexicon.

Would El Maroudi agree those homicidesmurder under Dutch law that are never prosecuted meaningfullyare killing? Orwould she prefer to call it something elsesomething more soothing and deflectingbecause doctors do the lethal deed to end a life they consider not worth the living?

Euthanasia is homicide, e.g., the killing of a human being. Legalized murder one might say, and when without consent, it is murder that goes unpunished.

If El Maroudiwould like to see an example of constructed lies, she should read her own piece.

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