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Ghouls are cheering NY’s new suicide law, but look what happened in the Netherlands

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New York’s pro-death community must have celebrated Wednesday when the state’s Medical Aid in Dying law kicked in.

But for a horrifying, real-life illustration of the slippery slope such laws face, look no further than the Netherlands.

There, activists — many in the medical professions — have become part of a pernicious death cult, roaming almost at will through homes, nursing facilities and, increasingly, hospices with their macabre mantra: Death on demand, anywhere, anytime, for anyone, for any reason.

It was difficult to imagine such a state of affairs getting worse, but it did when the country breached the final remaining taboo against assisted suicide and euthanasia and OK’d the medicalized killing of children between 1 and 12 years old.

Until two years ago, such paths were only available to patients 12 years and older.

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For 12- to 16-year-olds, parental permission was required. Anyone over 18 was fair game.

Infants from birth to a year old were also previously covered under statute.

But two years ago, the Netherlands moved to close that age gap, authorizing the administered death of........

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