Santorum comments on forced euthanasia cause stir in Netherlands

[Botany]

http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/24/10499145-santorum-comments-on-forced-euthanasia-cause-stir-in-netherlands


A Dutch politician wants his government to publicly rebuke Republican presidential
candidate Rick Santorum for claiming that forced euthanasia is legal in the Netherlands
and that the elderly are being killed against their will.

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“They have voluntary euthanasia in the Netherlands, but half the people who are euthanized
every year, and it’s 10 percent of all deaths, half of those people are euthanized involuntarily
in hospitals, because they are older and sick,” Santorum said. “So elderly people in the Netherlands
don’t go to the hospital. They go to another country. Because they’re afraid because of budget
purposes they will not come out of that hospital if they go in with sickness.”

Santorum also said some Dutch wear bracelets saying, “Don’t euthanize me.”

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It said the former Pennsylvania senator overstated the rate of euthanasia. Government statistics show
euthanasia is climbing but represented only 2.3 percent of all deaths in the Netherlands in 2010, it said.

FactCheck.org said Santorum’s claims that the elderly are being killed against their will and wear “do
not euthanize me” bracelets are false.

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Rick really is batshit crazy. I wonder if he really believes the stuff coming out of his mouth?

[jwirr]

1. Of course he believes it - like with his home schooling he picks and chooses his sources of

information. He ignores any other sources so that his ideas are never challenged. And he believes everything he reads/hears from HIS sources.