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Patients receive lethal injections without giving their consent (involuntary euthanasia)
New Scientist ^ | 20 June 1992 | Rachel Nowak

Posted on 02/21/2010 11:04:43 AM PST by JimWayne

The details are alarming. At least a third of the 5000 or so Dutch patients who each year receive lethal doses of drugs from their doctors do not give their unequivocal consent. About 400 of these patients never even raise the issue of euthanasia with their doctors...But the most flagrant abuse of euthanasia was the killing of a two-day-old child with Down's syndrome - a child who would probably have lived for 40 to 50 years.

(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: healthcare; hillarycare; murder; obamacare
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I had to edit the headline as it was too long.

Imagine the doctor ending the life of your loved one because the bureaucratic system is short of money.

1 posted on 02/21/2010 11:04:43 AM PST by JimWayne
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To: JimWayne

This is what “free” healthcare gets ya! Comin’ soon to this country.


2 posted on 02/21/2010 11:06:44 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (If the CIA and NASA are going to "monitor climate change", why the hell do we need the EPA?)
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To: JimWayne

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When Bill Mahr makes the hospital deicisions.


3 posted on 02/21/2010 11:09:21 AM PST by Touch Not the Cat
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To: JimWayne

Hang ‘em all at sunup.


4 posted on 02/21/2010 11:09:24 AM PST by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The Zero, Pelosi, Reid eta l. “Liberal’s final solution.”


5 posted on 02/21/2010 11:09:35 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead (Clean the RAT/RINO Sewer in 2010 and 2012)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Yup! The government is going to decide who gets to stay and who has to go.


6 posted on 02/21/2010 11:10:30 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (If the CIA and NASA are going to "monitor climate change", why the hell do we need the EPA?)
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To: darkangel82

Why ruin a perfectly good sunup. Do it now and get a good nights sleep.


7 posted on 02/21/2010 11:10:48 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: JimWayne

That is exactly what is coming with rationcare.


8 posted on 02/21/2010 11:14:53 AM PST by GeronL (I pledge allegiance to the Principles of the Bill of Rights and to protect and defend it...)
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To: JimWayne

Once they figure out how much these lethal injections are costing the government, they are going to look for a more efficient method - like gas chambers.


9 posted on 02/21/2010 11:15:00 AM PST by centurion316
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To: JimWayne

Liberals just do not understand the concept of slippery slope.


10 posted on 02/21/2010 11:16:03 AM PST by GrannyAnn
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To: JimWayne

And the Dutch thought Hitler was a monster.


11 posted on 02/21/2010 11:16:37 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Truth - Reality through the eyes of God.)
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To: Touch Not the Cat
Coming soon with Obama care.

Premiums go up..

Grand Ma goes down!

12 posted on 02/21/2010 11:17:34 AM PST by jaz.357 ("If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future." W.Churchill)
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To: GrannyAnn

Right to Die = Duty to Die


13 posted on 02/21/2010 11:18:10 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: JimWayne

“But the most flagrant abuse of euthanasia was the killing of a two-day-old child with Down’s syndrome”

This isn’t “killing”; it is murder in the first degree. Evidently the Dutch have become Nazi’s.


14 posted on 02/21/2010 11:25:16 AM PST by achilles2000 (Shouting "fire" in a burning building is doing everyone a favor...whether they like it or not)
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To: GrannyAnn
"Liberals just do not understand the concept of slippery slope."

Yes they do, however their arrogance just assumes it will never happen to them.

15 posted on 02/21/2010 11:27:21 AM PST by oprahstheantichrist (The MSM is a demonic stronghold, PLEASE pray accordingly - 2 Corinthians 10:3-5)
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To: JimWayne

Are they grinding people up into little green wafers yet?

16 posted on 02/21/2010 11:30:10 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Reid will show those special needs kids who is boss! /sar


17 posted on 02/21/2010 11:30:12 AM PST by omega4179 (jdforsenate.com hunt some rinos 2010)
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To: GrannyAnn

“Liberals just do not understand the concept of slippery slope.”

They do understand it. They just want us to be at the bottom of the slope.


18 posted on 02/21/2010 11:30:29 AM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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To: JimWayne

How many of these killed people were muslims? Do the Dutch have the balls to
“euthanize” muslims?


19 posted on 02/21/2010 11:31:03 AM PST by Levante
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How many of these killed people were muslims? Do the Dutch have the balls to
“euthanize” muslims?


20 posted on 02/21/2010 11:31:34 AM PST by Levante
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