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Belgium considers euthanasia for minors

Belgian legislators opened a debate Wednesday on whether to amend a decade-old law on euthanasia to cover minors, being told by experts that it was already taking place in practice without any set guidelines. Currently, the law applies to those over 18 but one expert told the upper house of…

Deaf Belgian twins going blind ‘commit euthanasia’

Deaf Belgian identical twins used a decade-old euthanasia law in a mercy-killing pact after they began to go blind, Flemish media reported Saturday. In what was presented as a unique case, the 45-year-old men from the Antwerp area who shared a bedroom all their lives began to encounter problems with…

Three reasons the euthanasia lie has taken hold

Salon has an article about the 5 main right wing “myths”—known in my world as “blatant lies”—that are dominating the health care debate and making it hard to have a rational discussion. Some should be obvious even to low-information voters, such as the “the government’s out to get your Medicare”…