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  • All hospitals 'must permit euthanasia' [Slippery-slope alert from Belgium]

    06/16/2003 7:18:48 AM PDT · by Constitutionalist Conservative · 20 replies · 303+ views
    Expatica.com ^ | 13 June 2003
    BRUSSELS — The right to euthanasia must exist in all hospitals, negotiators forming Belgium's new government said Friday in a move to counter opposition by some Catholic hospitals that have allegedly refused to permit assisted suicide on their premises. The negotiators, who are forming a government after the 18 May general elections, have laid down that every hospital must have a team of doctors prepared to apply euthanasia, under a strict policy designed to protect patients and their relatives. Euthanasia was made legal, under certain conditions, in Belgium last year. Doctors will be given a protected status for performing euthanasia....