Let’s give intellectually disabled the right to euthanasia, say Belgian humanists

BioEdge: Let’s give intellectually disabled the right to euthanasia, say Belgian humanists: People with intellectual disabilities, all children and people with dementia should be able to request euthanasia, the Belgian Liberal Humanist Association has declared. Its president, Jacinta De Roeck, a former senator who helped to draft the current law, says: “We can not accept that a certain group of people should be completely excluded from self-determination over life and death.” This is an especially touchy topic in Belgium because of  the euthanasia of mentally handicapped people in neighboring Germany under the Nazis.

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