The Gronigen Protocol: A Crime Against Humanity In the Making

Inasmuch as the Culture of Death is a global campaign in which crimes committed in Holland today will be perpetrated in the United States tomorow and inasmuch as infanticide has been practiced in the United States for some time, I bring you the following report from the pages of Life Matters! . . .

"Four times in recent months, Dutch doctors have pumped lethal doses of drugs into [critically ill] newborns," Matthew Schofield reported for the Knight-Ridder on October 11, adding:

The children's deaths, and the possibility that the protocol will become standard practice throughout the Netherlands, have sparked heated discussion about whether the idea of assisting adults who seek to die should ever be applied to children and others who are incapable of making, or understanding, such a request.

Under the so-called "Groningen protocol," doctors have the authority to end such children's life. "The protocol is likely to be used primarily for newborns, but it covers any child up to age 12," Schofield advises.

A parent's role is limited under the protocol. While experts and critics familiar with the policy said a parent's wishes to let a child live or die naturally most likely would be considered, they note that the decision must be professional, so rests with doctors.

The protocol was written by hospital doctors and officials, with help from Dutch prosecutors. It's being studied by lawmakers as potential law.

The protocol, Hugh Hewitt observes in The Weekly Standard, "should enter the history books as shorthand for an appalling brutality, so appalling in fact, that the Groningen Protocol could have been an entry on the agenda at the Wannsee Conference." On November 30, the Associated Press published a follow-up account. "The protocol is already in effect, and at least four babies had been deemed disposable and killed," Hewitt advises, concluding:

This is either a low point, or a point of no return. The establishment of "independent committees" to dispatch nonconsenting humans is nothing but a death penalty committee for innocents. Once begun, it is impossible--simply impossible--to limit the concept with any bright line....If the "severely retarded" may be killed upon appropriate motion, second, debate, and majority vote, why not the moderately retarded? Why not the mildly retarded? Why not, in fact, anyone the "independent committee" deems as usefully dispatched.

The Hollanders were the victims of the German occupation during the Nazi tyranny of the Twentieth Century. Now, the Netherlands is a victimizer nation, implementing the anti-life protocols of the TAB tyranny of the Twenty-First.

Tragically, their own infants among the most defenseless victims of the Culture of Death, as it "turns yet another blood-stained page in its long and malevolent history. The Allies liberated Holland in 1945. Who will free the victims of today's crimes against humanity in the Netherlands?