A wrong message may be sent out and so misunderstandings may occur as well. I used two articles for this: “Netherlands’ Euthanasia Stats are Appalling” by Anne McTavish and “Choosing To Die” by Frank E. Lockwood. A court decision in the Netherlands, 1973 started it. There were originally strict rules, to protect the ill who want to live and assist those who wanted to move on. In 23 years however, Dutch Doctors had progressed so far that they killed those who are chronically ill (but only if they had asked for it) and newborn babies with birth defects (Even though they can’t ask for it). They also performed Euthanasia on involuntary victims, it was without significant legal consequence even though it is prohibited. “Dutch doctors have gone from fighting death to administering death. We should never have to worry whether a doctor will decide we should be put down rather than healed or cared for.”(McTavish-July 4,2012) People are not allowed to be euthanized for financial purposes and yet in a television documentation a man was euthanized because he didn’t want to be a financial burden to his family and so he asked for it. Many people have died in the Netherlands, many of those deaths were unjust. “In 1990, 130,000 people died in the Netherlands: 2,300 people asked doctors to kill them; 400 asked doctors to provide them with means to kill themselves; 8,100 died when doctors deliberately gave them an …show more content…
In the Preamble it states, “We the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect Union… promote the general Welfare and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” (Preamble of the Constitution-1787) The general welfare is the welfare of the people. If our doctors, the ones who help heal us are the ones who are now allowed to hurt us (despite it being against their oath) then our welfare is in danger. There would be a fear in the back of our mind whenever we would go to a checkup. A fear that there might be something wrong with me and so I’ll be euthanized. Our liberty, our choices that others before us had fought so earnestly for would be taken away again. Our future would be taken away if we would be euthanized against our will. The Fifth Amendment, despite it being about criminal activity, it states that, “No person shall… be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” (The Fifth Amendment-1791) If we were being euthanized against our will or without our knowledge then we would be deprived of our liberty and lives. “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” (The Tenth Amendment-1791) This means that the people have more rights than what is stated in the Constitution. If euthanasia was legalized than it would have to be under constant surveillance