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Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Diane Coleman, lawyer and president of Not Dead Yet, a disabilities rights group opposed to the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia
- on their call for a moratorium on feeding tube removals for people in "persistent vegetative state"
» More on Not Dead Yet
and
Sylvia Law, Professor of Law, Medicine and Psychiatry at NYU, Board Member of Compassion in Dying, a group that seeks legislative support for physician-assisted suicide,
- on the use of advance directives and the Oregon assisted-suicide law
» Compassion in Dying
and
Jayd Henricks, Director of Congressional Relations for the Family Research Council, a conservative pro-family organization,
- offers a religious view against removal of life support
» Family Research Council


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