AUTISM and mental illness have been used as “justifications” for legally euthanising people in the Netherlands, a new study shows.
The finding, by a research team headed by Kingston University’s Irene Tuffrey-Wijne, raises fears that legal euthanasia is being extended to groups not intended to be covered by the original law.
Ms Tuffrey-Wijne’s group studied documents relating to 900 euthanasia cases released by the Dutch government’s euthanasia review committee.
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