The Netherlands Is Euthanizing Autistic Teenagers
There Is a Case for the State's Crimes against Humanity
In my country the Netherlands, children as young as 12 years old are allowed to apply for euthanasia with their parents’ consent. And 16 and 17-year-olds can have themselves euthanized without their parents being legally able to stop the process.
But a recent review by 19 Dutch psychiatrists in their February 2026 essay1 shows that autistic women were the most likely demographic to be euthanized in the Netherlands in the cohort under age 30.
Indeed, 74% of this group of euthanized patients under 30 was female, and 75% was autistic. So, on average, we can say that euthanasia for young people in the Netherlands targets autistic women. The 19 psychiatrists argue, however, that this practice needs to be banned for people under age 25.
Now, some of you will say that this is a private matter and the people seeking to end their lives should not be stopped. To those I say the following:
After one famous case of euthanasia of a 17-year-old girl who was depressed because she had been raped, 14 psychiatrists wrote a letter of complaint to the Dutch public protector in April 2024 saying that the girl was not competent to make the decision and that the euthanasia should not have happened.2
The public prosecutor however failed to prosecute the euthanasia doctor, saying no rules had been broken. Except, of course, the common sense rule to offer troubled young people alternative help instead of killing them.
In an American newspaper article by The Atlantic from March 2026, the mother of the girl stated that she trusted the euthanasia doctor’s assessment that death was the only option available to end the girl’s suffering.
This was an obvious lie. Wouldn’t a change of environment also have cured the girl?
Are we, as a society, manipulating young people who already feel like a burden, telling them that the only solution is for them to die? What kind of a society does that to its own children?
The good news is that the majority of Dutch psychiatrists refuse to euthanize such young people. Sadly, there are also some doctors who will put teenagers to death for a depression.
On top of this, the state of the Netherlands may have an ulterior motive, namely: the country also allows organ donation after euthanasia. The doctor who killed the 17 year old girl mentioned happens to be the most vocal supporter of organ donation after euthanasia.
I believe the state of the Netherlands is guilty of committing crimes against humanity, and I will keep speaking about this matter until the state has been convicted.
Update
Within 24 hours after my video about euthanasia for young autistic women, two women informed me that they were indeed told to "get euthanized", at ages 17 and 18.
I am preparing to send a case to the United Nations Human Rights Council, for I can prove with facts that the state of the Netherlands is committing crimes against humanity by *actively targeting autistic young people for euthanasia*, and by refusing them alternative care.
I believe the motive may be *accessing and selling young people's organs*, since organ donation after euthanasia has been allowed in the Netherlands since 2012, including for underage people.
This is pure evil.
Way back in 2000, I was visiting friends in Holland, and a relative of my friend was going to partake in euthanizing a patient. As I recall it was a woman, probably middle aged, who was alleged to be in great pain due to some disease.
Regardless, I found this shocking. The dinner party argued for it, though. (I won't even euthanize my pets).
Meanwhile, in the US, when MAHA announced research into the causes of autism, people went ballistic.
I'm not sure about the Netherlands, although it's probably not a stretch to assume that the same mind viruses are contaminating the Dutch as have contaminated young American women, but there is a strange idea that a condition is permanent, that one cannot see their way through to the other side without medication or -- well -- now it's death, apparently. Everything is "trauma" this and "trauma" that. More to the point, as a fly on the wall at my gym I am often overhearing young women claim that they are too damaged to produce children and besides the world is a terrible place.
We need to recalibrate the purpose of life and the potential for resilience. Frankly I could never live with myself if I told young people that their lives were not worth living because something bad happened to them. It's unconscionable.