Proof of the slippery slope; Noa Pothoven, 17, killed herself because she was raped

When the left extolled the virtues of killing people who were no longer useful, the elderly for example, sane people pointed out that once society says that it's ok to kill people there would be a slippery slope leading to killings that few people would support.

The left and the #FakeNews media mocked those fears.

Yet a few days ago a 17 year old girl in the Netherlands used the permissive euthanasia laws to kill herself because she couldn't recover from the trauma of having been raped when she was younger.

Anyone who really cared about this girl should have worked on overcoming her psychological problems but instead the euthanasia movement in the Netherlands just killed her.

She wrote the following about her suffering:

“Out of fear and shame, I relive the fear, that pain every day. Always scared, always on my guard. And to this day my body still feels dirty,” she said. “My house has been broken into, my body, that can never be undone.”

Her fear is the result of the left's push to go easy on criminals.  That she felt ashamed of being raped is a result of Western society's distorted perspective on rape.  If a woman, or a girl, says no and is raped she's done nothing wrong and has nothing to be ashamed of.  Yet we so rarely hear that message. Instead we hear things like "she led him on".  But the reality is that men are human too so that if they hear "no" no matter how enthused they are they can stop.  If they choose not to stop then that is not the fault of their victim.

By making killing herself easy the people of the Netherlands share in the guilt of her murder.  Instead of helping her feel safe and teaching her that she had nothing to be ashamed of they enabled her to act on her depression and kill herself.

Had she not killed herself odds are that in a week, a day, a month, or a few years she would have come to peace with the evil that was done to her and lived a good life.

Euthanasia gives people who are at their weakest what appears to them in the depth of their illness to be a way out; a way that they'd never take if they were completely sane.

Hence those who push euthanasia must bear the responsibility of people like Noa who kill themselves when they are suffering from clinical depression.