Not to be outdone by Canada’s spiralling absurdities as MAiD is now the fifth-leading cause of death there, the Dutch have found new depths to which they could sink in their assisted-suicide policy.
Think back to when you were 12. That’s 7th grade, give or take. Your whole life is before you. Entire vistas of possible paths lie open before you. You might even begin noticing that the opposite sex has a few more redeeming features that you might have seen just a year or two earlier.
What was NOT on that list of endless possibilities?
Signing off on paperwork for your doctor to send you off to that final Adios Snooze.
In the Netherlands, we don’t even know HOW old the child that ended his or her life might be. Or what condition that child may have suffered from.
We only know for sure that a life was ended, because the government’s own reporting has said as much.
According to the Dutch governmentʼs 2025 annual report on late-term pregnancy termination and life-ending procedures, authorities received a report in late 2025 involving a child between the ages of 1 and 12. The case is the first known report since the Netherlands broadened its regulations to permit euthanasia for children in that age group under limited circumstances.
Dutch Health Minister Sophie Hermans confirmed in a June 22 letter to the Dutch House of Representatives, “At the end of 2025, the committee received its first report of life termination of a child between the ages of 1 and 12 years.”
Few details about the childʼs age, illness, or circumstances have been released. Under Dutch law, all such cases are reviewed by an independent committee to determine whether legal requirements were followed.
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The reported case of the child under 12 has drawn criticism from Catholic and pro-life advocates, who argue that societyʼs response to suffering should be compassionate care and effective pain management rather than intentionally ending a human life.
“This is clearly a grave ethical violation,” said Joseph Meaney, senior fellow and director of international coordination at the National Catholic Bioethics Center. “The Church teaches that euthanasia and assisted suicide are intrinsically evil and so can never be morally justified actions. The case of euthanizing children is graver still since a child cannot give informed consent.” — EWTN
That’s the news portion of this story.
Here’s some context.
Did you catch the detail about 1-12 being different from babies that haven’t yet seen their first birthday? The Dutch already allow for the orchestrated death of babies who haven’t seen their first birthday. The Dems’ ‘clump of cells’ and ‘my body my choice’ arguments fall apart once the baby’s been born, but the arbitrary life-and-death decisions based on essentially the same logic. Some babies deserve an opportunity to struggle and thrive, others have that decision made for them.
This is a different category altogether. We know the kid already celebrated his or her first birthday. Maybe a second. Or a seventh. Or a tenth. All we know for certain, is that 12th birthday never arrived. Not because they fought against a disease and lost. We have hospice care to ease the suffering of such cases.
This was a case where the fight was called before that final bell by the refs. In this case, the parents and the doctor.
It seems a little ironic that the Netherlands seat of government is The Hague.
