PETITION: TELL THE UN TO DEMAND AN END TO CHILD EUTHANASIA
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Dear SPUC supporter,
As the sanctity of human life is degraded around the world, we are seeing a particularly horrifying phenomenon - the euthanasia of children.
As if killing adults is not bad enough, giving lethal injections to children was first legalised in Belgium in 2014, and the Dutch health minister has recently announced that the country is expanding eligibility for children to be given lethal injections to include children aged one to twelve.
Sign our petition to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, calling on them to take action against states that permit this horrific practise.
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• In The Netherlands from 2005 to 2018, official reports indicate that 14 children between the ages of 12 and 18 were actively euthanised.
• Reports from Belgium and Holland up until 2010 show that between 7% and 9% of all infant deaths involved active euthanasia by lethal injection.
• This push to kill sick children is not just happening in Europe. In Canada, a parliamentary committee has recommended that Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) should be extended to ‘mature minors’.
We are calling on the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child to make a statement condemning the euthanasia of children, and to take action against state parties who practise it.
Sign our petition now to stand up for sick children and their parents!
Thank you for your continued support.
With best wishes,
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Alithea Williams
Public Policy Manager
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