It could happen here before we realize it.
The Netherlands have set up a "commission to regulate the practice of ending the lives of 'seriously suffering' newborn babies."
Between 1997-2004, 22 newborn babies were killed there because they had spina bifida, a birth defect of the spinal column. I guess they never met the physician who was a 3rd year resident when I was an intern. If this doctor had been born in the Netherlands, he never would have been allowed to live to teach me how to insert central venous lines into dying patients in order to save their lives.
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