Fast Takes: Euthanasia always expands, Schumers meddling costs Americans and more

Every nation that’s legalized euthanasia has seen “attempts to expand the eligibility of the law,” many “successful,” warns Adam James Pollock at UnHerd.The Dutch law 23 years ago allowed it “provided the patient was a newborn baby or over the age of 12”; now the Netherlands has followed Belgium in OK’ing child-killing, and reports its first under-12 .

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beneficiary? Canada is discussing “the euthanasia of newborn babies” with “deformities” and “medical syndromes.” Britain’s recent assisted-suicide bill would limit “eligibility to adults who are deemed to be terminally ill” with six months or less to live, but UK advocates already want more, because “life expectancy in and of itself says nothing.” Beware: Any vote for some euthanasia “is inevitably a vote to open the door” to expansion.Avoid “slippery slope” up-front, “before it is too late.”The “acute memory chip shortage” now pushing up prices across many industries is “another example of America’s permitting and industrial policy dysfunction,” grumbles The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board.

“While the world’s three dominant memory chipmakers — Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix — are working to expand production, America’s permitting morass makes that harder.” Add in the “political misallocation of capital” thanks to Sen.Chuck Schumer’s 2022, which led Micron to plan an upstate factory whose “site wasn’t ideal.” New York’s “laborious environmental reviews” have already delayed construction two years; in response, “Micron has accelerated construction of a manufacturing fab in Boise, Idaho.” For now, Americans are paying more for “Schumer’s political meddling.”After Katrina smashed New Orleans in 2005, “the city rebuilt its school system and became the nation’s first nearly all-charter, all-choice district,” notes Paul G.

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