Europe...on the cutting edge of what?

A committee set up to regulate the practice will begin operating in the next few weeks, effectively making Holland, where adult euthanasia is legal, the first country in the world to allow "baby euthanasia" as well...life can be ended only in cases involving "unbearable suffering", with parental consent and after consultation with other physicians.

 

The entire article is worth reading, and these are very, very tough questions.  But here's the crux:

 

But from a moral point of view, he argued, it was no different from administering a lethal dose of morphine, since the result of withdrawing treatment would also eventually be death.  "Is there any difference between watching someone drowning without doing anything and pushing them into the lake?" he asked.

I would say, and I think the vast majority of us would agree, that yes there is a very big difference.  I've struggled with these kind of issues for a while, and I'm convinced that we make these kind of decisions because we think we have all the facts, that we know all the conditions and understand all the options.  But we so clearly don't.  And what's more, I'm convinced that we must leave room for God to move, because it's not only only our actions and our decisions that matter.  He cares much more for our character than our comfort. 

 

After all this is His world, not ours.