A law in the Netherlands that allows people to register their stillborn children as a legal persons in the Personal Records Database, is now also being used to register unborn babies who were killed by abortion.
According to the law that passed in February 2019, any parent can report a child who died prior to birth regardless of the time frame, and the deceased child is then added to the Dutch “persons list” next to the information of the parent(s).
A young woman who deeply regretted her abortion then came forward to register her aborted child, who was terminated fourteen weeks into the pregnancy, under the auspices of the new law. The officials at Amsterdam’s City Hall duly processed her request and registered the child in their records.
Kees van Helden of the Dutch pro-life organization Cry for Life said this addition to the law “is a step forward in the process of dealing with grief after abortion”. He added: “The fact that a woman can now register her aborted child as a person, with a name and a date of birth, should force our government, and perhaps other governments as well, to re-examine the abortion laws. Because according to what is now their own logic, our societies are killing human beings.”
