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The Miracle and Tragedy of Alfie Evans
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Stephanie Hertzenberg
The situation sounds like something out of a dystopian novel. A toddler suffers from a mysterious disease. Doctors have no cure and want to let him die. The parents decide to take their child to another country that is willing to provide treatment. The doctors refuse to let the child leave, claiming it is kinder…
DutchNews: One third of doctors refused to perform a “mercy killing”
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One third of the Netherlands’ doctors have refused to carry out a euthanasia request over the past five years, according to a survey of 800 family doctors for the Dutch television program “EénVandaag.” The English-language website DutchNews reports that around half of Dutch general practitioners who were questioned said they had felt pressured by patients or their relatives to…
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