by Frank Bergman, Slay News:
Several Dutch citizens who had autism or other intellectual disabilities have been euthanized by doctors in the Netherlands under the authority of the nation’s globalist government.
In recent years, a number of Dutch patients have died by physician-assisted suicide after doctors determined their afflictions were untreatable obstacles to a normal life, researchers found.
According to a Kingston University investigation of Dutch euthanasia cases, nearly 40 people who were identified as being autistic or intellectually disabled were legally euthanized in the Netherlands between 2012 and 2021.
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The UK study found that five people younger than 30 who were killed had cited autism as the sole or major reason for their decision to go through with euthanasia.
With those cases, experts have questioned whether the law allowing doctors to kill suicidal patients via lethal injections has strayed too far from its initial intentions when passed in 2002.
When the laws were first introduced, they were meant to offer terminally ill patients an option when their life had become too unbearable due to the pain of their untreatable illness.
Kasper Raus, an ethicist and public health professor at Belgium’s Ghent University, said the types of patients seeking out physician-assisted suicide have changed greatly over the past two decades in both the Netherlands and Belgium, where it is also legal.
As Slay News has reported, Belgium has now euthanized a staggering 27,000 citizens since its laws were relaxed.
When the Netherlands became the first country to legalize human euthanasia, the debate focused on people with cancer — not those with autism, Raus said.
Patients must meet strict requirements including suffering from an incurable illness that causes “unbearable” physical or mental anguish to be eligible for euthanasia.
However, doctors ultimately decide who qualifies.
In the roughly 10-year period the study focused on, nearly 60,000 people decided to die via euthanasia in the Netherlands, according to the Dutch government’s euthanasia review committee.
Of those deaths, the committee has released documents and data on 900 cases in an effort of transparency.
