Thread by GonzoII.
Rome, 17 Feb. (AKI) - A senior Vatican official on Monday weighed into the euthanasia debate currently raging in Italy following the death of a comatose Italian woman last week whose feeding tubes were removed. President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Rino Fisichella, said that feeding patients is not a medical treatment but an inalienable human requirement.
"Food and water are not medical treatment,"Fisichella stated."
"Thousands of doctors and scientists share our belief that food and water are not medical treatment but an essential requirements for life which can never be eliminated," Fisichella stated.
While euthanasia is illegal in Italy, refusing medical treatment is not.
Thread by GonzoII.
GUATEMALA, February 16, 2009 (LifeSIteNews.com) - An eminent Spanish biologist and bioethicist recently gave an interview in Guatemala stating that science has proven the damaging effects of abortion on the victim's mother.
Dr. Natalia Lopez Moratalla has a master's degree in bioethics and a doctorate in biology, and is the former director of the Interfaculty Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Navarra Medical School in Spain. She currently acts as an advisor to Spain's parliamentary subcommittee studying the reform of the nation's abortion law.
My thoughts also. This should be taken for granted.