Dutch government backs euthanasia for children under 12
Child cancer patient. Photo credit: sumroeng chinnapan Shutterstock CNA Help us expand our reach! Please share this article CNA Staff, Oct 14, 2020 CNA.- The government of the Netherlands has announced it will allow the euthanization of terminally ill children between the ages of one and 12. “There is a need for active termination of life among doctors and parents of incurably ill children, who are suffering hopelessly and unbearably and will die within the foreseeable future,” Health Minister Hugo de Jonge wrote in an Oct. 13 letter to parliament. Euthanasia is already legal in the Neth...