Should the state make life-or-death medical decisions?
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The case of Terri Schiavo, which the Florida high court hears Tuesday, will help establish procedures in future cases. By Warren Richey | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Severely brain damaged, Terri Schiavo lies in a Clearwater nursing home unaware of the legal tug of war over her life. And on Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court wrote another chapter in this long-running right-to-die case.
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A doctor takes a risk and goes against a patient's wishes in order to save his life.
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Northern Ireland&#39;s Department of Health has been ordered to draw up guidelines on when abortion can be carried out. The Court of Appeal in the North made the order.
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Health officials will ask a court to decide whether to continue treating a seriously-ill baby as his family plead for him.
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The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to void the nation&#39;s only law allowing doctors to help terminally ill patients take their own lives.
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A local authority is asking the High Court if a chronically ill woman can be helped to travel abroad for an assisted suicide.
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Doctors in the UK have asked a High Court judge to decide whether they have to keep a desperately ill baby alive if it stops breathing for a fourth time.
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Dutch health officials are considering guidelines doctors could follow for euthanizing terminally ill people &quot;with no free will,&quot; including children, the severely mentally retarded and patients in irreversible comas.
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The High Court is deciding whether a man can take his chronically-sick wife to Switzerland for an assisted suicide.
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Legal authorities faced an ethical dilemma over whether doctors should continue to prolong the life of a nine-month-old baby who suffers from a rare genetic disorder.
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Doctors may have to take a more active role in addressing the spiritual needs of patients with terminal illnesses, a study suggested on Thursday.
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Doctors may have to take a more active  role in addressing the spiritual needs of patients with  terminal illnesses, a study suggested on Thursday.
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The US Supreme Court questioned on Wednesday whether world opinion against the death penalty for juveniles should influence its decision on the constitutionality of executing
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I remember seeing some discussion about the Schiavo case on DailyKos a while back. I just wanted to update that the Florida Supreme Court has ruled &quot;Terri&#39;s Law&quot; unconstitutional.
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A study of doctor-assisted suicide in the Netherlands and Oregon counters the argument that making it legal may lead to more of these deaths among vulnerable groups like the disabled, although it did find some evidence for this among people with AIDS.
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Legal authorities in Britain faced an ethical dilemma over whether doctors should continue to prolong the life of a nine-month-old baby who suffers from a rare genetic disorder.