Groningen Protocol - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 20 Apr 2023 00:46:31 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Groningen Protocol - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Dutch legalise euthanasia for primary school-age children https://cathnews.co.nz/2023/04/20/dutch-legalise-euthanasia-for-primary-school-age-children/ Thu, 20 Apr 2023 05:50:56 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=157840 Euthanasia is to be extended to primary school-age children in the Netherlands, the Dutch government has announced. Health Minister Ernst Kuipers said that children aged five to 12 years can obtain lethal injections if "life termination is the only viable option to end the child's hopeless and unbearable suffering". The country already allows the euthanasia Read more

Dutch legalise euthanasia for primary school-age children... Read more]]> Euthanasia is to be extended to primary school-age children in the Netherlands, the Dutch government has announced.

Health Minister Ernst Kuipers said that children aged five to 12 years can obtain lethal injections if "life termination is the only viable option to end the child's hopeless and unbearable suffering".

The country already allows the euthanasia of gravely ill newborn children under the infamous Groningen Protocol.

According to the NLTimes, Mr Kuipers said he expects the regulations to be implemented within the year.

He said he also expected up to 10 primary school-age children a year to die by lethal injection as a result.

The regulations will work by exempting doctors from prosecution if they perform an approved child euthanasia.

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