Pediatric Euthanasia and the Fear of a New Eugenics
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The Dutch Commission for the Assessment of "Late Abortion" and "End of Life of Newborns and Children" concluded that the doctor acted according to guidelines when an almost two-year-old boy was euthanized.
At the end of 2025, the Netherlands applied for the first time a regulation in force since 2024 that allows a doctor to end the life of a child aged one to 12 in exceptional circumstances.
Dutch euthanasia death of a two-year-old could reignite the debate in Britain
The euthanasia of a child who was nearly two years old in the Netherlands has reopened questions about how far assisted-dying laws can extend, days after MPs in Britain rejected legislation for terminally ill adults. The case, first reported by NL Times earlier this month, concerns the first known euthanasia death in the Netherlands of a child aged between one and 12. The child died at the end of 2025. The child was born at 26 weeks and suffered…
Pediatric euthanasia and the fear of a new eugenics
Adapted from The New Eugenics in Medicine: Two Novellas About Power, Science, and the Future of Human Worth. The Netherlands’ first reported termination of life in a child between ages 1 and 12 under its 2024 framework for regulating pediatric euthanasia has become a global lightning rod for debate over the merits and sins of euthanasia. Read more… Pediatric euthanasia and the fear of a new eugenics originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
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