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Belgium Keeps Euthanizing Mentally Ill Patients

Paul Bois

The so-called “Death with Dignity” advocates keep pressing on about how euthanasia and assisted suicide will only pertain to severely ill people, similar to how abortion advocates promote child-killing as a desperate measure for severely downtrodden women. The facts show neither is the case, especially in Europe, where Down syndrome babies are disappearing in certain countries and the mentally ill are now dying by lethal injection.

One of the leaders in the death for mental patients movement is Belgium where people can be put to death if they lament of “unbearable and futile psychological suffering” suffering to a doctor. The incredibly relaxed language regarding mental patients has sparked alarm among some medical professionals in Belgium, who recently penned an open letter calling for a national debate on the issue. Here’s some of what they had to say:

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