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The bishops' order "fails to respect settled law that empowers patients with the right to refuse or direct the withdrawal of life-prolonging care," said Barbara Coombs Lee, president of Compassion & Choices, which advocates for the right of terminally ill patients to make life-or-death decisions.

Actually, Compassion & Choices ONLY believes in killing the elderly, sick and disabled.

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[don-o]

Enough bafflegab in the snip to fuel your refutation and illumination,if you please

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[Lauren BaRecall]

I’ve really had it with these Bishops. What is so hard about understanding what the Church teaches?

[Darren McCarty]

The bishops' order "fails to respect settled law that empowers patients with the right to refuse or direct the withdrawal of life-prolonging care,

(sighes). Stupid ass comment. The key words here are Catholic hospitals. Catholic hospitals are supposed to follow Catholic teaching. This isn't even a change in Catholic doctrine from before. If I'm 85 years old, won't get better, and need machines to live, the decision can be made to take off life support. Nutritional assistance is not considered the same thing as life support machines.

[Cicero]

Actually, there is nothing new about this. Extraordinary means, such as a heart-lung machine, may be discontinued if there is really no hope of recovery. But ordinary means such as food, water, antibiotics, or intravenous feeding should not be discontinued as long as the patient is alive.

If the Catholic hospitals in SanFran were doing something different, then they were wrong. And possibly one of their lousy bishops in the past was wrong as well. It was clear enough in the past, except to people who were willing to misread the documents for their own agendas.

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Coming from the U. S. Bishops, no less!