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An alarming new study shows that people with autism and other types of intellectual disabilities are being euthanized in the Netherlands, and experts are concerned that these individuals are not capable of understanding the repercussions of their decision. According to researchers from Kingston University, dozens of otherwise healthy people with intellectual handicaps or autism died […]

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Several Dutch citizens who had autism or other intellectual disabilities have died by physician-assisted suicide in recent years after doctors determined their afflictions were untreatable obstacles to a normal life.

Several people with autism and intellectual disabilities have been legally euthanized in the Netherlands in recent years because they said they could not lead...

LONDON: Several people with autism and intellectual disabilities have been legally euthanized in the Netherlands in recent years because they said they could not lead normal lives, researchers have found.

The cases included five people younger than 30 who cited autism as either the only reason or a major contributing factor for euthanasia.

Several people with autism and intellectual disabilities have been legally euthanized in the Netherlands in recent years because they said they could not lead...

Several people with autism and intellectual disabilities have been legally euthanized in the Netherlands in recent years because they said they could not lead...

I LOVE BELGIUM. I REALLY DO. Every once in a while, a bioethics article appears which is so powerful an indictment of injustice that it sends shivers up the spines of its readers. In 1949 Leo Alexander published “Medical Science under Dictatorship” in the New England Journal of Medicine, about the atrocities committed by Nazi doctors. In 1966 Henry K. Beecher published “Ethics and Clinical Research”, also in the NEJM, whose bland title belied its searing message about ethical catastro...