New Catholic mandate on comatose patients

Courtesy Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Health and Fitness  Mon, 01/04/2010 - 13:48

The nation's Catholic hospitals face a new religious mandate in the new year: to provide life-sustaining food, water and medicine to comatose patients who have no hope of recovery.


 

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