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Judge may rule that if she were mentally competent she would chose an abortion?! What happens when we let govt make health care decisions
Abortion advocates return to their roots: eugenics.
“Dana Cody of Life Legal Defense Foundation agreed, “Death should not be a treatment option.” […] However, a court-appointed guardian ad litem found Moe would choose to have the child. Harms decided to disregard his finding and order the abortion without introducing additional evidence, ignoring Massachusetts’ legal precedent […] Defenders of the unborn hope the court will respect the woman’s choice even when her decision does not result in an abortion. “In large part when choices are made by courts or administrative bodies…the choice is always death.’”
This should have a million notes. It’s a little too much like this. And like all the forced abortion/euthanasia in the Netherlands. When human life is declared expendable, the government always wants to be the one doing the declaring.
Representative quotes from the links:
“Under the Groningen protocol, if doctors at the hospital think a child is suffering unbearably from a terminal condition, they have the authority to end the child’s life. The protocol is likely to be used primarily for newborns, but it covers any child up to age 12.”
“Dr Herbert Hendin, medical director of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, has studied euthanasia in the Netherlands. He notes that “what was intended as a solution for exceptional cases has become a routine way of dealing with terminal cases. The Netherlands has moved from euthanasia for the terminally ill to euthanasia for the chronically ill, from euthanasia for physical illness to euthanasia for psychological distress, and from voluntary to involuntary euthanasia.”United Nations on current euthanasia law: “The Committee is concerned lest such a system may fail to detect and prevent situations where undue pressure could lead to these criteria being circumvented. The Committee is also concerned that, with the passage of time, such a practice may lead to routinization and insensitivity to the strict application of the requirements in a way not anticipated. The Committee learnt with unease that under the present legal system more than 2,000 cases of euthanasia and assisted suicide (or a combination of both) were reported to the review committee in the year 2000 and that the review committee came to a negative assessment only in three cases. The large numbers involved raise doubts whether the present system is only being used in extreme cases in which all the substantive conditions are scrupulously maintained.”
“The favored method of killing in the Netherlands is an overdose of barbiturates followed by a lethal dose of curare.) In the Netherlands this practice is known as “termination without request or consent,” and is not even formally considered euthanasia in the statistics compiled by the government.”
If you think you can’t happen here, that it won’t happen here—you’re wrong. As this case and the Brick Walls scenario shows, it’s already begun.
