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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Officials with the incoming administration of Barack Obama have confirmed that he will indeed overturn a pro-life policy of President Bush on his first day in office. Despite campaigning on the rhetoric of wanting to reduce abortions, Obama will make one his first actions promoting them globally...
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Rome, Italy (LifeNews.com) -- An Italian clinic that offered to help Eluana Englaro's father take her life after he won the right from courts to euthanize her has backed down. The news follows the release of a letter signed by more than 700 Italian doctors and medical professionals who oppose ending her life prematurely.
The government-funded medical clinic in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region had offered to help kill Englaro after no hospitals or medical centers in the Lombardy region, where she lives, would pull her feeding tube.
However, the facility has backtracked following the issue of a guideline from Health Minister Maurizio Sacconi saying the removing of her feeding tube would be illegal if done following a medical transfer.
The clinic told the ANSA news agency that it was forced to withdraw the euthanasia offer following the new order.
"If the clinic were to offer hospitality to Eluana for the court ruling (to be carried out), the minister could take steps that would put the running of the clinic, and the jobs of 300 people, at risk," it explained in a statement...
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