George Dodds' response to the report that Dutch doctors have adopted
guidelines regarding the mercy killing of hopelessly suffering newborns is
ludicrous and employs an old trick that ideologues seem never to tire of:
assume the inherent evil in those whose opinion with whom you disagree,
then extend their arguments into absurdity using your own projected
extremism. So Dutch doctors acknowledge the reality of euthanasia for
newborns and desire a structure for more accountability and less secrecy:
"naturally", of course, they will eventually become Frankensteinian
Hitlers who will look for every reason to kill off all undesirables.
Likewise for "abortionists", I’m sure. Let's turn the tables, using the
same logic: "naturally", if we allow those who oppose euthanasia in any
form to "win" we will all eventually be hooked to breathing and feeding
machines forever, while our brains and our bodies rot and any savings that
we hope to leave to our children evaporate. As for abortion: if right-to-
lifers have it their way contraception will be equivalent to negating
potential human life, be banned, and all women who use it will be regarded
as murderers. And why would they stop there? All women of childbearing
age will no doubt be regarded as potential aborters/murderers; and those
that don't bear some expected number of children will have to prove that
they are either sexually inactive or infertile.
Rapid Response:
Re: Dutch Doctors and killing of patients
George Dodds' response to the report that Dutch doctors have adopted
guidelines regarding the mercy killing of hopelessly suffering newborns is
ludicrous and employs an old trick that ideologues seem never to tire of:
assume the inherent evil in those whose opinion with whom you disagree,
then extend their arguments into absurdity using your own projected
extremism. So Dutch doctors acknowledge the reality of euthanasia for
newborns and desire a structure for more accountability and less secrecy:
"naturally", of course, they will eventually become Frankensteinian
Hitlers who will look for every reason to kill off all undesirables.
Likewise for "abortionists", I’m sure. Let's turn the tables, using the
same logic: "naturally", if we allow those who oppose euthanasia in any
form to "win" we will all eventually be hooked to breathing and feeding
machines forever, while our brains and our bodies rot and any savings that
we hope to leave to our children evaporate. As for abortion: if right-to-
lifers have it their way contraception will be equivalent to negating
potential human life, be banned, and all women who use it will be regarded
as murderers. And why would they stop there? All women of childbearing
age will no doubt be regarded as potential aborters/murderers; and those
that don't bear some expected number of children will have to prove that
they are either sexually inactive or infertile.
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