Scary stuff

In the Netherlands — the poster nation for those on the vanguard of all that is new, progressive and liberal in the world — the government decided to oversee the killing of infants.

You read correctly: the killing of infants. This takes some explaining. Since 2001, the Netherlands has had legalized euthanasia. The law contains safeguards to prevent people under the age of 12 from being euthanized. Unfortunately, the safeguards sound great, but don’t work. It is well documented that each year a certain number of those euthanized had not given their permission. Worse, some 15 to 20 of them have been infants, clearly in defiance of the law.

This would be scary enough, but there’s worse to come. Rather than prosecute the doctors performing illegal euthanasia on infants, the government has decided to condone the practice. It will keep the law as is, but create a commission to draw up procedures that would allow doctors to get away, essentially, with murder.

Remember, this is the country held up by pro-euthanasia forces in Canada as a model for us to follow. It makes one shudder.

On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, in the same month, the prestigious American journal Foreign Policy published an essay by Peter Singer, esteemed professor at Princeton University. Singer is best known as the pro-abortion philosopher par excellence, the type of fellow who thinks animals have more right to live than unborn children with disabilities.

In his essay, reprinted in the National Post, Singer gleefully predicts the end of the long-standing belief in the sanctity and dignity of human life.

"By 2040, it may be only a rump of hard-core religious fundamentalists who will defend the view that every human life, from conception to death, is sacrosanct. In retrospect, 2005 may be seen as the year in which that position became untenable." Note, Singer is not a fringe lunatic; he is a well-respected, influential academic.