{"id":279590,"date":"2020-10-14T05:03:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T09:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=279590"},"modified":"2020-11-09T14:29:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T19:29:20","slug":"netherlands-legalizes-child-euthanasia-despite-opposition-from-christian-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/netherlands-legalizes-child-euthanasia-despite-opposition-from-christian-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands legalizes child euthanasia despite opposition from Christian parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Wonderful decision!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Dutch government will allow doctors to euthanize terminally ill children as young as one year old, making the Netherlands the second country in the world to permit the practice.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Hugo de Jonge announced the change in a letter to Parliament on Tuesday, calling the decision necessary to help\u00a0\u201ca small group of terminally ill children who are suffering hopelessly and unbearably.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The decision does not amend any laws, but exempts doctors from prosecution for ending a child\u2019s life in certain conditions and with parental consent. Children between the ages of one and 12 will now be eligible for assisted suicide, whereas previously only newborn infants and teenagers could be euthanized.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of their age, candidates for euthanasia in the Netherlands must have\u00a0\u201cunbearable and endless suffering,\u201d\u00a0and must request death\u00a0\u201cearnestly and with full conviction.\u201d\u00a0Two doctors must approve the procedure.<\/p>\n<p>The Netherlands legalized euthanasia in 2001, and was the first country in the world to do so. In 2014, Belgium became the first to legalize child euthanasia.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch government\u2019s decision was opposed by the country\u2019s two main Christian parties, the Christian Democrat Appeal (CDA) and ChristenUnie. De Jong himself is a member of the CDA, but supported the move based on a recently published\u00a0study\u00a0that showed strong support for the practice from doctors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/503521-netlernalds-legalizes-child-euthanasia\/?fbclid=IwAR1ykSmcq_7oQUbkqqCieBWDj8qlsdyA9QSdH_CNB5zlTvHdIW2APZxzZ0M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/503521-netlernalds-legalizes-child-euthanasia\/?fbclid=IwAR1ykSmcq_7oQUbkqqCieBWDj8qlsdyA9QSdH_CNB5zlTvHdIW2APZxzZ0M<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT: Wonderful decision! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":282169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}