Where is Hillary Clinton when you need her?

The Brussels Journal reports that there is a heathcare crisis in Belgium:

Belgium is one of the few countries where the liberal agenda has been pushed so far that, apart from abortion and gay marriage, euthanasia is also allowed by law. However, "market failure" is now jeopardizing the right of Belgians to die. The standard euthanasia procedure in Belgium (as in the Netherlands) is through injection with an overdose of the drug Pentothal. Brussels' leading euthanasiast, Prof Wim Distelmans, complained in the Belgian press today that the supply
of the drug to Belgium has all but stopped since Abbott Laboratories, the American pharmaceutical company that used to produce Pentothal, transferred the production to its spin-off Hospira in 2004.

The cause, apparently, is the packaging of the drug. So far Pentothal was sold in packets of ten ampullas, while one or two ampullas suffice to kill. Hospira has decided to start selling packets of only one ampulla in Belgium, but while the old packets have been sold out the new are not yet available. Hospira refused to comment but the reason for the change in packaging may be that the Belgian pro-euthanasia authorities are no longer willing to reimburse Pentothal unless it is sold in single doses.

"We have been without Pentothal for weeks now," Distelmans complains, adding that there is no alternative to the drug. "The intention of euthanasia is to bring the patient into an in an irreversible coma in an elegant and reliable manner. Pentothal is the only drug which can do this."

I think that if we want it to be legal for doctors to kill their patients they should have to use a .45 or a .357 magnum. Pushing a couple of shots of Pentothal is way too easy. If the doctors want the power to take life let them wipe brains off the wall.

I say this because in countries where voluntary euthanasia becomes legal it doesn't take long for involuntary euthanasia to become the norm. This is why the elderly in those European nations that have legalized euthanasia are afraid to go hospital.