Sliding Down the Slippery Slope

Couple of stories on Drudge that maybe of interest to those out there who want the U.S. to be more like Europe.

Belgium looks at euthanasia for minors, Alzheimer's sufferers

AFP - Belgium is considering a significant change to its decade-old euthanasia law that would allow minors and Alzheimer's sufferers to seek permission to die.
The proposed changes to the law were submitted to parliament Tuesday by the Socialist party and are likely to be approved by other parties, although no date has yet been put forward for a parliamentary debate.
"The idea is to update the law to take better account of dramatic situations and extremely harrowing cases we must find a response to," party leader Thierry Giet said.
The draft legislation calls for "the law to be extended to minors if they are capable of discernment or affected by an incurable illness or suffering that we cannot alleviate."

Kind of interesting that this was proposed by socialists, don't want the "useless eaters" using up all the resources that are better reserved for the fit. Wonder who decides who's more "fit" than others?

Report recommends France legalize 'accelerated deaths'

AFP - France should allow doctors to "accelerate the coming of death" for terminally ill patients, a report to President Francois Hollande recommended Tuesday.
Hollande referred the report to a national council on medical ethics which will examine the precise circumstances under which such steps could be authorised with a view to producing draft legislation by June 2013.
"The existing legislation does not meet the legitimate concerns expressed by people who are gravely and incurably ill," Hollande said.
The report said physicians should be allowed to authorise interventions that ensure quicker deaths for terminal patients in three specific sets of circumstances.
In the first case, the patient involved would be capable of making an explicit request to that effect or have issued advance instructions in the event of him or her becoming incapable of expressing an opinion.
The second scenario envisages medical teams withdrawing treatment and/or nourishment on the basis of a request by the family of a dying patient who is no longer conscious and has not made any instructions.
The third would apply to cases where treatment is serving only to sustain life artificially.
The author of the report, Professor Didier Sicard, stressed that he did not support any measures which "suddenly and prematurely end life."

Let's all keep in mind that Europe was the continent where mass murder was refined to assembly line precision and to a science. Where laborers where given just enough calories to just barely maintain life then eliminated when they weren't useful anymore.
Where disposing of the bodies was assembly line perfection.
Respect of human life has never existed in Europe, it's history proves it.
There's only one way this can go, the question is do we really want to follow.