With children it is usually cancer: incurable sickness, unbearable pain, debilitating, degrading misery. What child wouldn\u2019t prefer to go an be with Jesus? Belgium\u2019s Federal Control and Evaluation Committee on Euthanasia (it\u2019s a thing) agrees. Far better for children to be given a fatal injection than to cough up blood all night long, whether or not they go to be with Jesus. Indeed, Jesus doesn\u2019t really come into it. Why should he? We\u2019re talking about the exercise of free will for the alleviation of unbearable physical suffering. It is liberal, progressive and compassionate. A child could understand it, especially at the age of 17.<\/p>\n
Belgium legalised euthanasia in 2002, and now injects people whether or not they are suffering a terminal illness. If you\u2019re depressed and feeling suicidal for no particular reason at all, Belgium will provide a way out. They extended euthanasia to children in 2014. It is the only country in the world that has no age restriction. At least in the Netherlands you have to be 12 years of age before you can decide you\u2019d prefer to be with Jesus than all those nasty doctors and nurses. In Belgium, the Federal Control and Evaluation Committee on Euthanasia can give their blessing to your death if you\u2019re 10, eight, six\u201d\u00a6 provided you\u2019re in unbearable physical pain and know what you\u2019re doing.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child\u201d\u00a6 (1Cor 13:11).<\/p>\n
One hesitates to use the word \u201d\u02dcevil\u2019 of statutes promulgated by well-intentioned politicians in the context of a liberal democracy, with all the constitutional checks and balances afforded by reason and experience. But Belgium\u2019s abolition of all age restrictions on \u201cthe right to die\u201d\u009d must surely qualify as one of the most wicked and damnable decrees in the history of Christendom.<\/p>\n