The Netherlands was the first nation to legalize euthanasia.Now the percentage of deaths there due to doctor-assisted suicide has risen to 4.5% — that’s a comparable percentage to the number of Americans killed each year in all accidents. As Cardinal Willem Eijk of Utrecht says, this is what happens when “one breaks the principle that human life is an essential value . . .”
“Mercy” killing’s slippery slope
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