It notes an unusual feature of Oklahoma's legislation.
No other state mandates that if written documents do not exist expressing the patient's wishes, and if patients can no longer speak for themselves, doctors must assume the patient wants to be kept alive by extraordinary medical means. That disregards, Annette said, a study that found, after the very public case of Terri Schiavo and her long-term coma, that 80 percent of Americans do not want that kind of treatment.
There's never a good time to plan for your death
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NEW YORK, November 22, 2007 (C-FAM.ORG)- At a United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) lecture at the UN on Tuesday, Dr. Gertrude Mongella, president of the Pan-African Parliament and former top UN official, praised UNFPA’s controversial promotion of “reproductive rights,” a term used by some UN committees to mean abortion, as a way to reduce the tragedy of maternal mortality even while admitting that the policy has failed to help women.
Mongella, a former UN under-secretary and special envoy on women’s issues and development, reported that the number of women dying from maternal causes in Africa had remained virtually unchanged from 1990 to 2005 and that in some parts of Africa, the maternal mortality rate continues to rise. She said that anywhere from 10-30% of this was due to unsafe abortions.
Former UN Official Compares Pregnancy to Slavery
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