‘Bioethics’ Journal calls for killing disabled newborns

February 25, 2008

The article, entitled “Ending the Life of a Newborn”, penned by a pair of bioethicists – Hilde Lindemann and Marian Verkerk – ostensibly sets out to clarify eight separate “misunderstandings” about The Groningen Protocol. In the process, the pair defies initial expectations by boldly and unapologetically pointing out that the protocol is in truth much more extreme than most of its critics believe it to be; the authors, however, argue that its extremity is in fact its true strength, the true evidence of its ethical nature. (Catholic Online)