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To: Ohioan from Florida; Goodgirlinred; Miss Behave; cyn; AlwaysFree; amdgmary; angelwings49; ...
Eluana Englaro Update Not many details, but it looks like Eluana has a chance.

Italian clinic drops plans to let vegetative woman die (Eluana Englaro)

An Italian father's campaign to let his daughter die after 17 years in a permanent vegetative state has hit another setback.

A clinic in the northern city of Udine has dropped its plans to withdraw the feeding tubes that have kept the 38-year-old woman alive since a car crash in 1992.

The clinic decided to heed an order from the Health Ministry banning any Italian clinic from doing so.

The Italian Supreme Court ruled in November that the woman's father could have the support systems withdrawn.

"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."

252 posted on 01/17/2009 2:13:56 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: tcg; Ohioan from Florida; Goodgirlinred; Miss Behave; cyn; AlwaysFree; amdgmary; angelwings49; ...
We need more clergy to speak in the same unequivocal terms as Bishop Vasa.

Thread by tcg.

Bishop Vasa: Those who profess to love God, but back abortion, are liars

I do not see how any Catholic senator or representative could vote for the passage of FOCA without recognizing that such a vote would constitute a direct and intentional declaration of their disdain for Catholic teaching. Such a vote would be tantamount to a public declaration of their intention to abandon the Catholic faith. It would be imperative that the faith consequences of such a declaration be allowed to fall fully on the heads of those who would make it...

253 posted on 01/17/2009 2:17:33 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

Thanks for the update.


259 posted on 01/18/2009 7:54:08 AM PST by Dante3
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