Forget looking down a slippery slope. Legally, a doctor has ended the life of a child in the Netherlands. We don’t know the exact age, but we do know the child was twelve or under. 

According to the NL Times:  

For the first time, a doctor in the Netherlands has ended the life of a terminally ill child, Minister Sophie Hermans of Public Health wrote in a letter to parliament. The special committee established to assess euthanasia for children received the report last year, NOS reports.  The assessment committee has reviewed the case, spoken with the doctor involved, and passed its assessment to the Public Prosecution Service (OM), Hermans wrote. The OM will determine whether the doctor acted in accordance with the law. The assessment committee’s recommendation will weigh heavily in this decision.  Hermans did not mention the child’s age or the nature of their illness in her letter.  The Netherlands has allowed euthanasia for children between the ages of 1 and 12 since 2024. The decision must be made in consultation with the child’s parents, and it must........

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