Cenk Uygur
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Why A Rape Victim Was Euthanized
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May 15, 2016
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6:18Now PlayingA victim of sexual assault in The Netherlands, told doctors that her emotional pain was too much for her to bear. The doctors allowed her to be euthanized, because they believed she was untreatable. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“A Dutch woman in her 20s was euthanized using a lethal injection after her doctors determined that the post-traumatic symptoms she suffered as a result of childhood sexual abuse were "unbearable."
"There was no prospect or hope for her," her psychiatrist said, according to the Daily Mail. According to Metro UK, the patient's symptoms included severe anorexia, chronic depression, hallucinations, and compulsions, all of which left her mostly bedridden.
While the Daily Mail and other outlets have reported that the patient was deemed "totally competent" to choose to end her own life by multiple psychiatrists, her euthanasia has been met with intense scrutiny, as has the Netherlands' liberal policy on assisted suicide. "It almost sends the message that if you are the victim of abuse, and as a result you get a mental illness, you are punished by being killed, that the punishment for the crime of being a victim is death," one UK politician said.”
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