Another election post, sorry, but can't help myself. This one is getting personal :) Don't go telling untrue stories about my country!!
In a video on YouTube, Rick Santorum claims that we kill our old people in Holland (using euthanasia). The article below is a reaction by someone who obviously also does not agree...
Santorum: 5% of Deaths in the Netherlands are Caused by Involuntary Euthanasia
Rick Santorum made this comment about two weeks ago, but it is so outrageous and a distortion of the truth that it cannot be passed up. In this video, he claims that 10% of the deaths in the Netherlands are from euthanasia, which has been legal since 2002. That is false, but the outrageous part is that Santorum claims that half of those deaths are involuntarily induced on the aged and sick. He goes onto charge that people are going to hospitals in other countries so they aren’t put to death while in Dutch hospitals. Santorum then makes a connection to abortion in the U.S. with this fiction.
The truth is that only 2-3% of those who die in the Netherlands are eased into death by euthanasia. No one is involuntarily put to death. The system is loaded with safeguards from multiple doctors needing to approve of the procedure to only those with no hope of improvement being considered. Even at that, the person who is going to be euthanized must present the desire for euthanasia voluntarily and persistently. Besides that, the person must also be alert and fully aware of what is going to happen.
If you listen to Santorum, it sounds as if old people are being strapped into beds and euthanized like unwanted dogs in a kennel. This man wants to be president, just imagine the fun he will have the facts once in the White House.
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