{"id":6057,"date":"2014-11-10T21:42:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T05:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6057"},"modified":"2018-03-07T20:44:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T04:44:38","slug":"euthanasia-in-the-netherlands-is-getting-out-of-hand-ethicist-who-screened-over-4000-euthanasia-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6057","title":{"rendered":"Euthanasia in the Netherlands is getting out of hand: ethicist who screened over 4,000 euthanasia cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0LifeSite News<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Jeanne Smits<\/p>\n<p>A prominent professor of ethics who was once part of the Netherlands&#8217; euthanasia bureaucracy has again voiced his qualms over the present interpretation and use of the Dutch euthanasia law in a lengthy interview published last week by the Protestant daily, <em>Trouw<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Theo Boer is worried that current trends in the Netherlands are trivializing euthanasia to an extent that many who fought for legalization of &#8220;mercy killing&#8221; in the 1990s now privately express their opinion that it has gone too far. And it will be hard to turn back the clock, he acknowledges.<\/p>\n<p>Theo Boer does not oppose euthanasia: on the contrary, he served as an ethicist for nine years on one of the five regional control commissions that monitor all cases of declared euthanasia in the Netherlands. He stepped down last September. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/euthanasia-in-the-netherlands-is-getting-out-of-hand-ethicist-who-screened?\" target=\"_blank\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0LifeSite News Jeanne Smits A prominent professor of ethics who was once part of the Netherlands&#8217; euthanasia bureaucracy has again voiced his qualms over the present interpretation and use of the Dutch euthanasia law in a lengthy interview published last week by the Protestant daily, Trouw. Prof. Theo Boer is worried that current trends in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6057\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Euthanasia in the Netherlands is getting out of hand: ethicist who screened over 4,000 euthanasia cases&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,1093,9],"tags":[3741,1950],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-6057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-euthanasia","category-netherlands","category-news","tag-levenseinde-kliniek-netherlands","tag-theo-boer"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Euthanasia in the Netherlands is getting out of hand: ethicist who screened over 4,000 euthanasia cases - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6057\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Euthanasia in the Netherlands is getting out of hand: ethicist who screened over 4,000 euthanasia cases - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0LifeSite News Jeanne Smits A prominent professor of ethics who was once part of the Netherlands&#8217; euthanasia bureaucracy has again voiced his qualms over the present interpretation and use of the Dutch euthanasia law in a lengthy interview published last week by the Protestant daily, Trouw. 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