Euthanasia: “With every limit we set ourselves, there is the possibility to cross it."

The quotation in the title to this post comes from the Netherlands top euthanasia doctor. I think it is applicable to any number of progressive ideologies, and it gives you a good idea of how they worm their way into the mainstream of modern culture. It should also give you an indication of the limitless nature of such ideologies.

From Mercator comes the witness of Dr. Keizer who runs an euthanasia clinic in the Netherlands where, 

"...one out of 25 people are killed by doctors in the Netherlands. And those are just the official figures."

Per Dr Keizer,

“With every limit we set ourselves, there is the possibility to cross it. This also applies in the peripheral areas of ethical conduct. Abortion was once not allowed, then hardly, then until 12 weeks and now even up to 20 weeks. That ‘even’ says it all. Something similar is now underway in the field of human embryo research, where we are starting to leave the ‘never’ stage.”

Well, the abortion limit of 20 weeks has certainly been crossed in the minds of many of our politicians who reject any limits on abortion.

“And so it was with euthanasia. Every time a line was drawn, it was also pushed back. We started with the terminally ill, but also among the chronically ill it turned out to be hopeless and unbearable suffering. Subsequently, people with incipient dementia, psychiatric patients, people with advanced dementia, (high) elderly who struggled with an accumulation of old-age complaints and finally (high) elderly who, although not suffering from a disabling or limiting disease, still find that their life no longer has content. The unfortunate term ‘completed life’ was used for the problem of the latter group.”

Remind your physician to not tell his/her depressed patients to take a trip to the Netherlands to see the tulips or they'll be pushing up the daisies..

“In retrospect, it is true that we now provide euthanasia to people to whom we had said, a little indignantly, 20 years ago, ‘Come on, that is really impossible’. And looking ahead, there is no reason to believe that this process will stop in case of incapacitated dementia. What about the prisoner who has a life sentence and desperately longs for death? Or doubly disabled children who, although institutionalized, suffer unbearably and hopelessly according to their parents as a result of self-harm? I don’t believe we are on a slippery slope, in the sense of heading for disaster. Rather, it is a shift that is not catastrophic, but it does require that we continue to get involved as a community.”

To Dr. Keizer, the faster one rides the slippery slope, the better.

The road to Hell has no speed limits.