If You're Dutch, You Ain't

There is a phrase in Dutch Reformed West Michigan: "If you ain't Dutch,
you ain't much". Apparently, now if you are a terminally ill infant in
the Netherlands (How utterly appropriate: "the way out-there"-lands) it
appears that if you are Dutch you simply become "ain't".

This
shock headline just appeared on the Drudge Report.

I have to respond specifically to one thing said:
"Measures that might marginally extend a child's life by minutes or
hours or days or weeks are stopped. This happens routinely, namely,
every day," said Lance Stell, professor of medical ethics at Davidson
College in Davidson, N.C., and staff ethicist at Carolinas Medical
Center in Charlotte, N.C. "Everybody knows that it happens, but there's
a lot of hypocrisy. Instead, people talk about things they're not going
to do."

Professor Stell is either being duplicitous or else he is severely
mistaken, for there is a huge ethical difference between stopping
measures that might prolong life and seeking, as the Dutch are,
deliberately to end life. Equating switching from
extraordinary measures to palliative care to deliberate euthanasia is
morally, theologically, and logically irresponsible and indefensible.

This is just sick. The Culture of Death marches on and eugenics lives.
Peter Singer must be sooooooo proud. This is the killing of people who
have no voice, who have expressed NO DESIRE TO DIE.
God help us all. Rise up, O Church.