Minister of Health Ernst Kuipers expects this arrangement to be introduced in the course of the year, he said after the cabinet. There are no additional due care requirements from the government. Based on the treatment and experiences, the professional group is asked to come up with such requirements and standards. The treating physician must be convinced on the basis of prevailing medical insight that termination of life is “the only reasonable alternative to remove the child’s hopeless and unbearable suffering,” says Kuipers.
The possibility of terminating the life of young children has been discussed for a long time. “It is a very complex decision. These are terrible situations,” says Kuipers. “It is about a child with a serious condition that you know will die and suffer unbearably. You have to do that very carefully.”
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