By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new study has found that almost half of the “euthanasia nurses” practicing in Belgium admit to euthanizing patients who did not ask for their lives to be ended.
According to London’s Daily Mail, a study appearing in the Canadian Medical Association Journal found that of the 248 nurses polled, 120 admitted that they had taken part in “terminations without request or consent.”
“’The nurses in our study operated beyond the legal margins of their profession,” the study’s authors report, and believe it is likely that many nurses “under reported” their involvement for fear of admitting an illegal activity.
Euthanasia was legalized in Belgium eight years ago and accounts for two percent of all deaths – or 2,000 per year.
“We should take a warning from this that wherever you draw the line, people will go up to it and beyond it,” said Dr. Peter Saunderes, director of the Care Not Killing campaign in Britain, to the Daily Mail. “Once you have legalized voluntary euthanasia, involuntary euthanasia will inevitably follow.”
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