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The lectionary readings for the Slaughter of the Innocents are available from TextWeek.

The passage from Matthew 2:13-23 is available from BibleGateway.

News elsewhere on the Dutch euthanasia includes:

Secret killings of newborn babies trap Dutch doctors in moral maze | Call for new rules to end dilemma for medical and legal professions. (The Guardian, UK, Dec. 21, 2004)

Dutch medics call for wider euthanasia laws | A commission of experts assembled by the Royal Dutch Medical Association on Thursday have called for a widening of the guidelines for allowing euthanasia in the Netherlands, to include mercy killings for patients who are tired of living. (Independent Online, South Africa, December 17 2004)

Call to allow 'suffering from life' mercy killings | Dutch doctors should be allowed — under very strict conditions — to help with mercy killings or euthanasia of patients who are not ill, but who are suffering from life, a special commission has advised. (Expatica, Netherlands, Dec 16, 2004)

Dutch consider infant euthanasia | Doctors in the Netherlands are calling for new laws allowing them to end the lives of newborn babies with intolerable and incurable illnesses. (BBC, December 14, 2004)

Euthanasia troubles Oregon doctors | Physicians say the practice in the Netherlands fails to give terminally ill newborns a chance to survive (The Oregonian, Dec 6, 2004)

Dutch hospital OK'd baby euthanasia | The revelation comes as the nation grapples with whether to allow mercy killings for those who can't decide for themselves (The Oregonian, Dec 1, 2004)

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