Posted on 01/17/2009 12:54:10 PM PST by wagglebee
An Italian father's campaign to let his daughter die after 17 years in a permanent vegetative state has hit another setback.
A clinic in the northern city of Udine has dropped its plans to withdraw the feeding tubes that have kept the 38-year-old woman alive since a car crash in 1992.
The clinic decided to heed an order from the Health Ministry banning any Italian clinic from doing so.
The Italian Supreme Court ruled in November that the woman's father could have the support systems withdrawn.
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Interesting choice of language here:
starve to death = “let die”.
“An Italian father’s campaign to let his daughter die after 17 years in a permanent vegetative state has hit another setback.”
The scumbag reporters here are lying. There is no plan to “let” this woman die. The father wants to MURDER her by starving her to death and denying her water.
Every Italian doctor thus far has refused to participate and a Lombardy government official has sworn that he will prosecute any doctor who does participate!
Italy may have all sorts of problems, but sometimes, at least every once in a while, that Italian stubbornness is a beautiful thing to behold.
You are absolutely correct and I think it is a travesty that this is being called a "setback."
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