More Than 1,000 Patients in Belgium in One Year Were Euthanized Without Consent
By Alex Schadenberg, Life News:
A recent article by Stuart Chambers that was published on January 5 in the Ottawa Citizen claims that:
It was a bitter pill to swallow for secular prohibitionists when large-scale abuses against vulnerable populations failed to materialize in those jurisdictions.
Chambers argues that there is only anecdotal abuse of euthanasia and assisted suicide and only religious arguments oppose euthanasia and assisted suicide ignoring the disability rights movement and the position of Not Dead Yet.
Chambers ignores the data from study that was published in the NEJM on March 19, 2015on the experience with euthanasia in the Flanders region of Belgium.
The study examined 3751 deaths in the first six months of 2013 in the Flanders region of Belgium and concluded that 1.7% of all deaths were hastened without request representing more than 1000 deaths yearly. The study also determined that euthanasia represents 4.6% of all deaths but the official Belgian reports indicate that euthanasia represents 2.4% of all deaths, meaning that almost half of all assisted deaths went unreported, a clear abuse of the Belgian law.
Chambers also ignored the data concerning the Washington State assisted suicide law.
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