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Rigali intervenes: feeding tube must stay.(Archbishop Justin Rigali ruled against removal of Steven G . Becker's feeding tube)(euthanasia; medical and religious ethics)(Brief Article)
Man leaves Catholic hospital to die Archbishop Justin Rigali of St. Louis has barred removing a feeding tube from a man in a persistent vegetative state, forcing a Catholic hospital to alter its usual practice. Rigali's stance handed a victory to anti-euthanasia groups picketing the hospital, but ...
October 20, 2000; National Catholic Reporter

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