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SEOUL, S. Korea, December 19, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Doctors at Severance Hospital in Sinchon-dong are refusing to carry out the sentence of the Western District Court ordering doctors to remove life support, including feeding tubes, from a comatose woman. The physicians are appealing the ruling to S. Korea's Supreme Court.
AsiaNews reports that the administration of Severance Hospital said that it would wait until December 17, the deadline established by the District Court for carrying out the euthanasia, before taking any action, and has now rejected the court's decision.
"This is a question concerning life, and requires the highest degree of prudence," said hospital director Park Chang-Il.
LifeSiteNews reported earlier this month on the case, which centers on 75-year-old Kim Ok-kyung, who fell into what was reported as both a "coma" and a "persistent vegetative state" in February while undergoing a lung examination.
The patients family filed a court request in May asking the hospital to take the woman off life-support, claiming that extending Kim's life using medical devices would prolong her "painful and meaningless" existence. The Seoul Western District court accepted the request to halt treatment, ordering the removal of feeding and ventilator tubes.
Anti-euthanasia groups are condemning the decision by the District Court, which requires the suspension of both feeding and artificial ventilation...
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This is so offensive to the dignity of the human person!
Instead of attempting to cure the cause of people's ills, some are attempting to nullify the inconvenience these people cause to the rest of society:
Folks at downtown's Ronstadt Transit Center on Tuesday afternoon had a way to make a quick $300.
The only stipulation was that the people be drug addicts or alcoholics who agree to long-term birth control.
The group Project Prevention, started by Barbara Harris in 1997, has so far paid more than 2,800 men and women across the nation...
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