Where Socialized Medicine Leads: Infant Euthanasia in Great Britain

by Will

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

November 29, 2012

Socialized medicine leads inevitably to rationed care, which inevitably leads to euthanasia. Over the past few years, Great Britain has been scandalized by revelations about the Liverpool Care Pathway. That protocol involves not only the denial of medical treatment to elderly and terminal patients, but also the withdrawal of food and fluids, which leads to an agonizing death by starvation and dehydration.

The London Daily Mail reports that the victims of this regime have included young patients ? including newborn infants.

Writing in the British Medical Journal, an anonymous physician testifies that he supervised ten cases in which fluid and nutrition were denied to babies born with severe disabilities. Typically, it would take ten agonizing days for the child to die from severe dehydration.

Bernadette Lloyd, a pediatric nurse, has confirmed that infants have been euthanized, and that parents of severely handicapped newborns often feel coerced by hospital staff into consenting to the killings.

Several months ago, two Australian bioethicists published an academic paper in the Journal of Medical Ethics arguing that what they call ?post-birth abortion? ? that is, infanticide of newborns ? should be permissible for any reason.  Given present trends, child-killing will soon not only be permissible, but in some cases mandatory.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free. 

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