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December 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Anti-euthanasia groups in Canada and Oregon are calling physicians, caregivers, and concerned citizens across the world to "Take the Pledge" to pursue genuine care for even the most dependent patients, and never to consent to assisted suicide.
Take-the-pledge.com, created by The Physicians for Compassionate Care in Oregon and the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, provides links to several anti-assisted suicide groups and invites caregivers and other visitors to make a pledge that reaffirms the duty to do no harm.
More government officials are speaking out; unfortunately, the deathbots have found a clinic that is willing to murder her.
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ROME, December 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) A high-level minister in the Italian government has called illegal the proposal to starve and dehydrate to death vulnerable patients in the care of the countrys nationalised health service. The news comes within hours of Italian media confirming that Eluana Englaro, known as Italys Terri Schiavo, was to be moved this week to a clinic that is willing to participate in her killing by removing her feeding and hydration tube.
Maurizio Sacconi, Italys Minister of Labour, Health and Social Policies, told a press conference that it is illegal for health care facilities funded by the government to remove the food and hydration of vulnerable patients with the intention of killing them. He referred to Article 25 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities that says to stop feeding and hydration is discrimination against disabled people.
Last month, Italys highest appeals court, the Court of Cassation, ruled that 38 year old Eluana, who has been in a condition of diminished consciousness since an auto accident in 1992, could be killed by the removal of her food and hydration, a move that has been condemned by Church officials in this strongly Catholic country as tantamount to murder. Although media has consistently referred to Eluana as being attached to a life support system, she is physically healthy and not dependent on a ventilator and only requires assisted feeding and ordinary nursing care...