With Eastern European countries now desperately impoverished by joining the EU (who does not remember how in the 1990s women in the former East Germany faced compulsory sterilization by the new capitalist employers in order to obtain work?) and young people fleeing to wage slavery in Western Europe, Fascist forces in the ever more Nazi EU are now suggesting euthanasia as the solution to unemployment, poverty and illness. Here is a story from last summer:

Posted on Jul 30, 2014

http://wrtl.org/lifevoice-blog/lithuania-health-minister-suggests-euthanasia-for-poor-people/

Euthanasia might be needed for poor people who cannot access palliative care, the new Lithuanian Health Minister has suggested. Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė was sworn earlier this month, but already she has made waves by backing an open discussion of the legalisation of euthanasia.

Without making any specific proposals, she told local media that Lithuania was not a welfare state with palliative care available for all and that euthanasia might be an option for people who did not want to torment relatives with the ‘spectacle’ of their suffering.

The minister has also raised the idea of euthanasia for children. She noted that this option had been approved for Belgian children after a long public debate. It was an option which might be appropriate in Lithuania as well after public debate.

Ms Šalaševičiūtė will face an uphill battle in her campaign to introduce Lithuanians to euthanasia. Many doctors and the Catholic Church oppose it. Dr Andrius Narbekovas, who is both a priest and a doctor, and a member of the Health Ministry’s bioethics commission, told the media:

“The Ministry of Health should protect health and life, instead of looking for ways to take life away. It goes without saying that it is … profitable and cost effective … But a democratic society should very clearly understand that we have to take care of the sick, not kill them.”