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The story in Italy repeated...

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Italian courts are grappling with their own Terri Schiavo, a 34- year-old woman, Eluana Englaro, who has been in a coma for 15 years after an automotive accident. Her elderly father, Beppino, wants to turn off her feeding tube because she is living in an "inhuman and degrading condition".

The case has been working its way through the courts. A year ago, a court in Milan refused to authorise removal of nutrition and hydration. But earlier this month, Italy's highest appeals court ordered a retrial. The Cassation Court declared that a person's right to decide what medical treatment they receive should be respected even if doing so would cause their death.

Doctors say Eluana will never regain consciousness. Otherwise, however, she is healthy and has never required life-support systems. Her father asserts that she said plainly during her conscious life that she would not wish to live in a vegetative state. He has often compared her situation with Terri Schiavo's. ~ ANSA, Oct 16; International Herald Tribune, May 15

Italy's Terri Schiavo

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Another lib is at it, pretending to be smart by reading the old liberal screensaver reminding us that decent Americans would want innocents like Terri killed and that any who would hope to save her are bad.

I can only guess from the title in the link that Pat Murphy has changed his name.

One would think Values Voters also would be hopping mad that President Bush vetoed more funds for the S-CHIP program for children's health care, which surely falls under the hallowed mission of "public policy that values human life." But no, Values Voters either are so irreversibly Republican to the core they'll buy anything with a Bush label, or saving children from deathly illness isn't the same to them as saving a fetus from abortion.

This crowd brought us the Terri Schiavo debacle—the humiliation of Congress enacting a law to keep Terri hooked to a tube, which President Bush flamboyantly signed after an overnight flight from his ranch to Washington, for naught. Terri died.

New name, same hangups

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