Groningen Protocol

The Groningen Protocol is a medical protocol containing directives with criteria under which physicians can perform "active ending of life on infants" (child euthanasia) without fear of legal prosecution created in September 2004 by Eduard Verhagen, the medical director of the department of pediatrics at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) in Groningen, the Netherlands.

Euthanasia of children under the age of 12 remains technically illegal in the Netherlands; however, Dr. Eduard Verhagen has documented several cases and, together with colleagues and prosecutors, has developed a protocol to be followed in those cases. Prosecutors refrain from pressing charges if this Groningen Protocol is followed.

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