Slippery Slope Indeed.

Via JunkYardBlog comes a commentary on the slipper slope we started falling down with Roe Vs Wade less than 30 years ago.

AP News:
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A hospital in the Netherlands — the first nation to permit euthanasia — recently proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newborns, and then made a startling revelation: It has already begun carrying out such procedures, which include administering a lethal dose of sedatives.

JunkYardBlog Exerpt:
Parents' views will get a hearing under the Protocol, but the final say is up to doctors. By "newborns," the Protocol actually refers to any child up to 12. As in 12 years, not 12 seconds, minutes, days or even weeks. A pre-teen more than twice the age of my son could be voted to death by a hearing of strangers. The children, obviously, have no say. That such a protocol even exists suggests a ghastly future awaits us all.

Then from IMOA comes a disturbing little story from the babies perspective.

"May you be born in interesting times" an old Chinese proverb, some say a curse.
I vote curse.