Dutch Supreme Court uses forced euthanasia case to expand permission to kill patients

We shouldn’t be surprised that the Court has now explicitly approved the forced euthanasia of patients with dementia if they asked to be killed before becoming incompetent.

April 22, 2020 (National Review) — More than 20 years ago, the Dutch Supreme Court approved the assisted suicide of a woman in despair because her children had died. So we shouldn’t be surprised that it has now explicitly approved the forced euthanasia of patients with dementia if they asked to be killed before becoming incompetent. From Reuters:

The Dutch Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that doctors could legally carry out euthanasia on people with advanced dementia who had earlier put their wishes in writing even if they could no longer confirm them because of their illness.

The ruling is a landmark in Dutch euthanasia legislation which up to now had required patients to confirm euthanasia requests. This had not been considered possible for mentally incapacitated patients like advanced dementia sufferers.

“A doctor can carry out an (earlier) written request for euthanasia from people with advanced dementia,” the Supreme Court said in a summary of its decision.

What the Reuters story failed to mention — and apparently the Supreme Court found to be irrelevant — is that the case in question involved a woman who fought against being killed. Nor does the story mention that the doctor had drugged the woman before starting to euthanize her, and that the doctor instructed the family to hold the struggling woman down so that she could administer the lethal injection. Moreover, the patient had also stated in her instructions that she wanted to decide “when” the time for death had come — which she never did. The termination “choice” was made by the doctor and/or family in violation of the patient’s advance directive.

But why would the Dutch Supreme Court let inconvenient facts get in the way of furthering the Netherlands’ ever-expanding national killing policy that already permits infanticide, joint geriatric euthanasia of married couples, termination of the mentally ill, conjoining euthanasia with organ harvesting, and the lethal injections of people with disabilities?

https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/dutch-supreme-court-uses-forced-euthanasia-case-to-expand-permission-to-kill-patients

Pennsylvania Attorney Pleads Guilty for Role in $2.7 Million Ponzi Scheme

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Maxine Waters Says Her Sister Is Dying of Coronavirus

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, revealed Thursday that her coronavirus-stricken sister is dying in a hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.

Waters made the remark during her House floor speech in which she dedicated Congress’s $484 billion relief package to her sister.

“I not only rise in support of this legislation,” said the California Democrat as she wore her face mask around her chin. “I also would like to rise in support of what we’re doing for the health care enhancement act in this bill. And I’m going to take a moment to dedicate this legislation to my dear sister who is dying in a hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, right now infected by the coronavirus.”

The House is expected to approve the relief bill Thursday, two days after the Senate passed the measure. The package includes $310 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program, $75 billion for hospitals, $60 billion for emergency disaster loans, and $25 billion for testing.

In another part of Waters’ speech, the congresswoman said that subsequent coronavirus aid must provide additional funding for Americans “hurting by the exploding economic fallout of the pandemic.

“Congress must now immediately turn to the next package of legislation to provide relief during the pandemic,” the lawmaker added. “We need to do much more to help renters, homeowners, people experiencing homelessness and mom and pop landlords.”

Earlier Thursday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) announced that her oldest brother, Don Reed Herring, had died from the coronavirus. He was 86-years-old.

“My oldest brother, Don Reed, died from coronavirus on Tuesday evening,” Warren wrote on Twitter. “He joined the Air Force at 19 and spent his career in the military, including five and a half years off and on in combat in Vietnam. He was charming and funny, a natural leader.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/23/maxine-waters-says-her-sister-is-dying-of-coronavirus/