More on the Dutch Euthanasia Study

The anti-euthanasia disability rights group Not Dead Yet has done a much better job of finding misinformation and inaccuracies in the report on Dutch euthanasia that was examined in yesterday's post.

AP Correspondent Tara Burghart provided the following as background information to readers:

"A study released Monday sheds new light on euthanasia in the Netherlands, the first country to legalize it for terminally ill people"

And this...

"The study comes at a time of heightened scrutiny of euthanasia -- especially in the Netherlands, where officials acknowledged last year that they had carried out mercy killings of terminally ill newborns."

What's wrong with this picture? Plenty.

For starters, "eligibility" for euthanasia in the Netherlands has never been limited to "terminally ill people." Don't take our word for it. Go check out the website of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs ­ the page devoted to info on their euthanasia policies is available in English at: http://www.minbuza.nl/default.asp?CMS_ITEM=MBZ257609&x=135&y=26

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