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  • Church likens tube removal to killing

    03/12/2005 4:02:09 AM PST · by Cincinatus' Wife · 12 replies · 505+ views
    Miami Herald ^ | March 12, 2005 | ALEXANDRA ALTER aalter@herald.com
    As some Christians from around the state prepare to flood Florida's Capitol in a show of support for Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman who has been in a vegetative state since 1990, a top Vatican official said Friday that removing Schiavo's feeding tube would be ``a pitiless way to kill.'' Monsignor Elio Sgreccia, the Vatican's chief bioethicist, said in an interview with Vatican Radio that removing Schiavo's feeding tube would be equivalent to euthanasia, The Associated Press reported. Doctors say Schiavo is in a permanent vegetative state. While her husband, Michael, argues his wife would not want to be kept...