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Netherlands Hospital Euthanizes Babies
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Dec 01, 2004 02:46pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, November 30, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Raising the stakes in an excruciating ethical debate, 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 in a handful of cases and reporting them to the government.
The announcement last month by the Groningen Academic Hospital came amid a growing discussion in Holland on whether to legalize euthanasia on people incapable of deciding for themselves whether they want to end their lives - a prospect viewed with horror by euthanasia opponents and as a natural evolution by advocates.
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