Life unworthy of life.


In the UK, according to the Daily Mail:

Now sick babies go on death pathway: Doctor's haunting testimony reveals how children are put on end-of-life plan

• Practice of withdrawing food and fluid by tube being used on young patients
• Doctor admits starving and dehydrating ten babies to death in neonatal unit
• Liverpool Care Pathway subject of independent inquiry ordered by ministers
• Investigation, including child patients, will look at whether cash payments to hospitals to hit death pathway targets have influenced doctors' decisions

And:

 Sick children are being discharged from NHS hospitals to die at home or in hospices on controversial ‘death pathways’.

Until now, end of life regime the Liverpool Care Pathway was thought to have involved only elderly and terminally-ill adults.

But the Mail can reveal the practice of withdrawing food and fluid by tube is being used on young patients as well as severely disabled newborn babies.

One doctor has admitted starving and dehydrating ten babies to death in the neonatal unit of one hospital alone.
Writing in a leading medical journal, the physician revealed the process can take an average of ten days during which a baby becomes ‘smaller and shrunken’.
The LCP – on which 130,000 elderly and terminally-ill adult patients die each year – is now the subject of an independent inquiry ordered by ministers.
 

Dawkins favors infanticide in the present day but won't debate William Lane Craig because Craig defended the killing of babies that happened four-thousand years ago.

Wintery Knight points out the irony found in this clip:



Dawkins has become a parody of the socially autistic atheist.

Infanticide or Murder.

SunNews' commentator Brian Lilley is bewildered by the lack of outrage over Canada's easy-going attitude to murdering babies.

Basically, the Canadian judicial system held that Fourth Trimester abortion is okay in Canada.

The guest explains that Canada's "infanticide" statute is anachronistic.

Child born without cerebellum is learning to walk.

Wesley Smith points to an amazing story about a child who was born without the portion of his brain that controls the human ability to learn is learning to walk.  He's also learning to talk and is potty-trained.

Smith also points out that in the Netherlands, this child would have been drafted into the organ banks over his parents' objections:

This child wasn’t technically anencephalic, but in the Netherlands, he would have qualified for extermination under the Groningen Protocol, by which Dutch doctors euthanize infants with terminal and seriously disabling conditions. They kill infants in Belgium, too. And no doubt, he might have been treated as a lost cause in most countries.


But the moral of the story is that all of us should be treated as fully human, no matter how dire our seeming circumstances. And sometimes there is no suppressing the power of human will, and if you will, what is often called the human spirit.