Posted by
voiceoftruth on Friday, July 18, 2008 10:45:37 AM
Today Lifesitenews.com published the following article.
US Pediatric Nursing Journal Toys with Condoning Infanticide
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08071705.html
I would recommend reading the full article to get the whole context.
There is a growing trend in the healthcare profession at home and abroad to redefine the "ethics" concerning infanticide, killing newborns who are determined by a medical professional that for them and the good of society at large their "quality of life" and it's future value would deem them a candidate for death through lethal injection or other means. This criteria is also becoming more and more subjective.
In some nations, like the Netherlands infanticide is legal, but it's ugly roots have spread out world wide and more and more countries, especially those who have socialized medicine are seeing the "cost in dollars" and "space one takes up in a hospital bed" as part of the potential criteria for an early ending of life. We know this has been happening in the situation of Euthanasia of the elderly for quite some time. And it goes way beyond even the subjective definition of pain and suffering, or perceived quality of life... it comes down to the dollars.
When medical science and health care professions starts considering the viability and ethics of something like Infanticide, calling them gray areas that need to be explored and seeking open debate on them... You know that the Devil has already got his foot firmly in the door.
Quoted...
July 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A professional journal for pediatric nurses has produced an article examining the ethics of infanticide according to the Dutch Groningen Protocol. The Protocol permits the killing of babies in the Netherlands on the judgement of a physician based on "quality of life" criteria. The article, appearing in the May-June 2008 edition of the Journal of Pediatric Nursing, and jointly authored by J. Catlin and Renee Novakovich, talks about the effects of the Protocol on medical ethics in the US.
The piece, "The Groningen Protocol: What Is It, How Do the Dutch Use It, and Do We Use It Here?" calls the issue "complex." The authors describe work undertaken by the American Nurses' Association (ANA) to help nurses define "the differences between euthanasia, assistance in dying and palliative care." The authors also write that although there are wide divisions in opinion on the direct killing of disabled infants, countries must continue to examine the moral, medical, ethical and legal aspects.."