Good grief, indeed. Actress Patricia Heaton is reacting to the news that Belgium has moved to expand its existing euthanasia laws to cover — minor children.
Steven Ertelt of LifeNews reports:
The Belgian Senate voted today 50-17 to extend euthanasia to children with disabilities, in a move pro-life advocates worldwide had been fearing would come and expand an already much-abused euthanasia law even further.
The vote today in the full Senate comes after a Senate committee voted 13-4 to allow minors to seek euthanasia under certain conditions and the measure also would extend the right to request euthanasia to adults with dementia.
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The Netherlands already allows children over the age of 12 to request euthanasia with the consent of their parents.
The legislation now moves to Belgium’s House of Representatives for a vote. Heaton’s followers and others are equally shocked that minor children in Belgium might soon be able to request to be euthanized.
@PatriciaHeaton that is horrific and disgusting and disturbing!Why why why?
— Fly Fishing Patriot (@ConservativeTEJ) December 12, 2013
https://twitter.com/PinkertonTom/status/411262736698335232
Belgium's killing handicapped kids. Who's next? “@PatriciaHeaton: Wait, what?http://t.co/eXS17WQmfT
Good grief. #BelgiumKills”— Rebecca Frech (@shovedtothem) December 12, 2013
@PatriciaHeaton who needs fiction when reality is so weird
— jon regas (@jonregas) December 12, 2013
@PatriciaHeaton It's unbelievable , terrible in what they're doing .
— TeamMusicEveryday (@TeamCjm4545) December 12, 2013
@PatriciaHeaton Those doctors will have hell to pay for this.
— Kevin Look (@KevinWLook) December 12, 2013
@PatriciaHeaton Terribly sad.
— Lori Brubaker (@Fleuri888) December 12, 2013
@PatriciaHeaton: horrible!
— Angie Vallejo (@vallejo_angie) December 12, 2013
@PatriciaHeaton I can't even get past the headline right now!!
— Karen ? (@karenellen45) December 12, 2013
That is some headline: “Belgium: Senate Approves Measure Allowing Doctors to Euthanize Children.” That slope was awfully slippery, wasn’t it?
https://twitter.com/stonebryson/status/411237737904099328
Belgian Senate voted by 50 to 17 in favour of extending its #euthanasia law to children – with no age limit #Belgium
— Paul Cunningham (@RTENewsPaulC) December 12, 2013
Belgium Senate votes for child euthanasia. The culture of death advances. Europe has lost sight of the truth of immutable human dignity.
— Richard Waghorne (@richardwaghorne) December 12, 2013