CALL TO ACTION for FLORIDIANS
Lori Kehoe, congressional liaison for NRLC's Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics, called on Florida citizens to "immediately" contact their state senators and representatives and ask them to support HB 701, a bill that bans the "withholding or withdrawal of nutrition or hydration from incompetent persons."
The bill "declares that an incompetent person is presumed to have directed health care providers to provide the necessary nutrition and hydration to sustain life; prohibits a court, proxy, or surrogate from withholding or withdrawing nutrition or hydration except under specified circumstances; provides that the presumption to provide nutrition and hydration is inapplicable under certain circumstances; conforms provisions to changes made by the act; declares that the act supersedes existing court orders otherwise applicable on or after the effective date of the act."
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