Pages tagged "Distelmans"
Complaint against Belgium's lead euthanasia doctor
Feb 27, 2014
This article was first published on the website.Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Europe
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Protest in Belgium targets child euthanasia and the 'toothless' government euthanasia commission
Jan 13, 2014
300 people gathered yesterday outside the Belgian headquarters of the Belgian Euthanasia Control and Evaluation Commission, the body charged by the government to control the use and application of the 2002 euthanasia laws, to protest at the ineffectiveness of the commission and also at the amendments to the law to allow euthanasia for children.(NB: The organizers claim that 500 protesters were present)
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Belgium and the majesty of the law
Jan 09, 2014
In this article from Mercatornet's blog, Careful, author, Michael Cook looks at the situation in Belgium and juxtaposes what is happening there with events in the UK. Euthanasing doctors in Belgium are clearly above and beyond the reach of the law!
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Belgium's death evangelist
Nov 24, 2013
In my last post I mentioned Dr Wim Distelmans, the Belgian oncologist who has been pushing at the boundaries of the Belgian death laws. I mentioned how he is also head of the Belgian Euthanasia Commission - a conflict of interest which explains why his recent actions have not been scrutinized and why, over the last ten years, no doctor has been brought to heel for breeches in the Belgian law (when there's ample evidence of abuse).
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