Lower Medical Standards Followed for Killing “Medical” Procedures

Wesley Smith notes a correlation between abortionist Kermit Gosnell's "Third-World" medical practices and the practice of euthanasia in the Netherlands. "Whenever a doctor engages in termination without request or consent” (non voluntary euthanasia), and is called to legal account (very rare), the Dutch Medical Society goes ballistic because enforcing the law–technically euthanasia must be voluntary after repeated requests or it is murder–will “chill” medical practice. . . .

"We Americans have no cause to look down our noses at the Dutch. We countenanced Jack Kevorkian assisting suicides of patients even though he had lost his medical licenses and, as a pathologist who hadn’t treated a living patient since his residency in the 1950s, he would have been utterly incompetent to treat the people he helped kill. . . . 

"When medicine is transformed into a killing enterprise, we expect less of the doctors who so engage. Perhaps that is because with rare exceptions (therapeutic abortion), it isn’t really medicine. And those who want to ensure that doctors will be willing to make death happen, aren’t particularly concerned with the professionalism required in every other medical situation."  First Things