A proposed amendment to Belgium's 2002 euthanasia law would give children the right to decide whether they wish to be euthanized. The bill also applies to disabled infants and seniors with dementia. Existing law limits euthanasia to those over 18 and requires consent of the person or guardian. “It is strange that minors are considered legally incompetent in key areas … but might [be able] to decide to die,” Catholic Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard testified. Michel De Keukelaere, founder of the March for Life in Brussels says, “Children never choose to die.” She suggests that the law is symbolic, a “sort of the revenge of these socialist and liberal parties who want to show that Christianity in Belgium is finished.”
