A new Dark Age is upon us. The therapeutic culture has perverted our culture’s moral imagination.…We truly live in a world where good is called evil and evil is called good and where the murder of innocents is seen as a sign of moral progress. Indeed, the former Dark Ages perhaps don’t seem quite so dark in comparison.

For any wishing to see where the West’s culture of assisted death is heading, Canada and the Netherlands have long been the harbingers of things to come. It is well-known that 1 in 20 Canadian deaths now comes at the hands of Canada’s own government. And in the Netherlands, a new boundary has now been crossed: The government has recently reported the first euthanizing of a child between the ages of 1 and 12 who was suffering from a terminal illness.

While the issue of terminal illness is fraught with emotion and references to “unnecessary suffering” carry tremendous emotive power, the deeper issue here is the context in which these actions take place. The West is already listing hard towards a culture of eugenics. IVF and surrogacy cannot in practice be separated from eugenic considerations. And the connection with elective abortion is clear: Iceland’s boast that it has virtually eliminated Down syndrome is a thin euphemism for its elimination of people with Down syndrome. It has decided that the possession of the wrong chromosome renders one unworthy of life.

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