From RenewAmerica:
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From Dan Rather's credible reporting about President Bush's National Guard service prior to the November 2004 election, to writing a prewritten story about Terri Schiavo's death, CBS has proved to be America's most credible news service.
Most Americans, by now, are familiar with the Terri Schiavo story.
The story of Terri is heart-breaking. In 1990, doctors claim Terri suffered a heart-attack causing her to collapse for minutes without oxygen getting to her brain. As a result, Terri has been perceived by many to be in a "permanent vegetative state."
For 15 years, Terri's husband Michael and her parents Bob and Mary Schindler have been involved in legal battles concerning Terri.
On March 18, 2005 Terri Schiavo's feeding tube, which sustained her life for 15 years, was removed. As of this writing, Terri Schiavo has been without her feeding tube for approximately 12 days...................
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Thread by Grzegorz 246 with thanks to wagglebee and TheSarce for the ping.
Teenagers should be given the right to medically assisted suicide and the parents of terminally ill younger children should be able to choose euthanasia under proposals from members of Belgium's coalition government.
The plans to extend rules allowing doctors to perform euthanasia on terminally ill people suffering "constant and unbearable physical or psychological pain" comes amid heated Belgian debate on the issue......
Teens need right to 'medically assisted suicide'
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