The Netherlands just executed a child. Naturally, it wasn’t called an execution. It was called “euthanasia,” a mercy killing, but in socialist societies where people are measured by their utility and the non-Biblical state has no reverence for each individual’s worth, something very ugly just began.
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It’s useful to understand the history of euthanasia. It flowed, ironically enough, from America. There, in the early 1900s, the progressives (slow-revolution socialists) who have infested the Democrat party since then, embraced Karl Marx’s core concept, namely, that humans could be perfected through coercive political systems.
They concluded that one way to make a perfect society was to eliminate unfit people—blacks, Jews, drunkards, the mentally ill, etc. That was always Margaret Sanger’s plan, through abortion and birth control. Jean Webster, the beloved author of Daddy Long-Legs, a charming epistolary novel, spelled it out clearly in the equally charming sequel, Dear Enemy. It was as a merciful thing that was going to benefit, not just society, but the unfit, as well.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), the famed Irish playwright, was an ardent Fabian (the British version of a progressive), and he explicitly stated how society could be made better by ridding itself of the deadwood:
Hitler was a great admirer of the Progressive ideas about racial purity and eugenics. Immediately upon taking power, the Nazis began a program of mandatory sterilization of all people who had what they believed were hereditary conditions (e.g., schizophrenia, epilepsy, “feeblemindedness,” hereditary blindness/deafness, etc.).
But of course, it wasn’t enough. People kept showing up with those conditions. So, by 1939, as a prelude to exterminating people with the hereditary condition of Jewishness, the Nazis embarked on a mass euthanasia program. In early 1939, acting under Hitler’s explicit orders, the Nazis executed over 5,000 disabled infants and children in the name of eugenics. It was for their own and society’s good…
At the same time, the Nazi embarked on a years-long program to do the same to adults in killing sites within Germany’s borders, eventually killing around 250,000 German citizens by the war’s end. Both my Christian German great uncle (a gay man with depression) and my Jewish great-grandmother (a woman with bipolar disorder) died early in this program. Again, it was for their own good…
My point is that these socialist programs always start out as ostensibly merciful programs, sparing sick people the horror of their condition and society the horror of their existence. However, as the Nazis showed, once you conclude that the state not only has the Biblical obligation to mete out justice to the evil, but the unlimited power to decide who among the good is worthy of life, the same programs invariably expand the category of people who need to be spared their own suffering and who must stop burdening society. All out of compassion, of course…
It was, therefore, inevitable that modern legal euthanasia, which was sold as a way to spare the terminally ill the last painful days of an imminently ending life, would expand to encompass depressed people and then people whose medical treatment was becoming too burdensome on a socialized system.
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We were always assured, though, that these people agreed to their deaths. They weren’t coerced. It wasn’t an execution. It was a mercy killing.
But once you start talking about mercy, there is no way to stop the euthanasia schemes from being rewritten to encompass children. Why should they be denied mercy, even if they have no understanding whatsoever of death’s finality?
That’s why it shouldn’t surprise anyone at all that the Netherlands executed…er, euthanized a child under 12:
The Netherlands has carried out its first euthanasia of a child under 12, two years after the country expanded its assisted dying law to include young children with incurable suffering, The Times reported, citing a minister. Dutch Health Minister Sophie Hermans disclosed the case in a letter to parliament on Monday. She said the “incurably ill” child died at the end of 2025, but gave no details about age, gender, illness, or location.
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In 2024, the government extended the framework to children aged 1 to 12 who experience “unbearable suffering with no prospect of improvement” and are expected to die in the foreseeable future. Officials estimated it would apply to only 5-10 children per year.
For children under 12, the law requires parental consent, confirmation that suffering is unbearable and irreversible, no reasonable alternative treatment, consultation with an independent doctor, and reporting to a regional review committee, which refers the case to prosecutors.
No one should have to suffer, but we do have extraordinary pain medications today—many of which the same euthanizing governments make almost impossible to obtain for people with serious, terminal illnesses. Also, morally, there’s a huge difference between a huge dose of morphine, which eased my mother’s last days when she had congestive heart failure, and killing someone.
The Netherlands has stepped off a slope so slippery that it’s not a slope at all; it’s a sheer, vertical freefall. Inch by inch, governments that have embraced climate change and already view the human race as a destructive parasite on earth (except for the elite nomenklatura who make these policies) are going to expand endlessly the identity of those who deserve the government’s merciful execution.
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