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September 24, 2007
Beware of medicine's newest craze: palliative care. The hype has only just begun.
Within the past two weeks we have seen an article in AARP Magazine, and a column in the New York Times; and like old Doc Kilmer peddling his Swamp Root Remedy, palliative care's promoters are promising everything from no pain to longer life. But palliative care, if not properly understood, can be deadly.
The foremost concern is that palliative care will become yet another tool in right-to-die's imposed death toolkit
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September 19, 2007
We regret to report that the Advance Directives/Health Care Power of Attorney (HCPOA) bill in NC (S1046 which later became H634) passed and was signed into law by the Governor last month. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) recently released its answers to two questions about artificial nutrition and hydration posed by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops in July, 2005 after Terri Schiavo's death. The document makes it clear that H634 is basically flawed because it invites choices which violate the moral natural law
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