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"It's time to be honest about the unbearable suffering endured by newborns with no hope of a future," said Dr. Eduard Verhagen, a pediatrician at Groningen Academic Hospital in the Netherlands.


* "It's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a  to be honest about the unbearable suffering endured by newborns with no hope of a future," said Dr. Eduard Verhagen Eduard Verhagen is clinical director of pediatrics at the University of Groningen. He is mainly known for his involvement in infant euthanasia in the Netherlands.

Euthanasia, while legal for adults, is illegal for children under the age of 12 in the Netherlands.
, a pediatrician at Groningen Academic Hospital in the Netherlands. The alternative future the doctor and the hospital envision is to permit the euthanasia of those who cannot request it--children, the retarded, the comatose--when those who can perform it determine that they are in intolerable pain. The Netherlands was the first country in the world to permit euthanasia for adults who do request it, so it's time to be honest about what euthanasia is-killing-and where it leads-killing by decree. The killing of adults who have not requested it is surely only a few years off. Who will snuff snuff, preparation of pulverized tobacco used by sniffing it into the nostrils, chewing it, or placing it between the gums and the cheek. The blended tobacco from which it is made is often aged for two or three years, fermented at least twice, ground, and usually  the last Dutchman-a doctor, or a jihadist Noun 1. Jihadist - a Muslim who is involved in a jihad
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Date:Dec 31, 2004
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