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Article: Pushing Infanticide.
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- National Right to Life News
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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Support for infanticide is becoming positively trendy. Where once support for killing babies born with birth defects was a fringe belief, it became respectableeven mainstreamafter doctors from Groningen University Medical Center in the Netherlands admitted in 2004 that they euthanized dying and profoundly disabled babies under the terms of what has come to be called the "Groningen Protocol."
The Protocol permits doctors to lethally inject three categories of sick or disabled newborn infants:
The baby has no chance of survival (which is sometimes misdiagnosed).
The baby "may survive after a period of intensive treatment but expectation for their ...