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	<title>Religion News Blog &#187; Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide</title>
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		<title>American preacher: How I helped Irish woman commit suicide</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 09:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[An American preacher who admitted assisting a Dublin woman commit suicide has described how he helped take her own life by giving her drugs and putting a bag over her head.]]></description>
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		<title>Euthanasia Cases Fall in Netherlands</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2007 06:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of euthanasia cases is falling sharply in the Netherlands where mercy killings were legalized six years ago, a government-funded report said Thursday.]]></description>
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		<title>Haunted mother who backs mercy killing</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16473/haunted-mother-who-backs-mercy-killing</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Kennedy says she is instinctively opposed to euthanasia but after almost four decades of caring for Jonny, she believes it should be an option in some circumstances.]]></description>
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		<title>UK Doctors: let us kill disabled babies</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16472/uk-doctors-let-us-kill-disabled-babies</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of Britainâ€™s royal medical colleges is calling on the health profession to consider permitting the euthanasia of seriously disabled newborn babies.]]></description>
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		<title>Euthanasia on the Rise in Netherlands</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/14469/euthanasia-on-the-rise-in-netherlands</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[AMSTERDAM, Netherlands &#8212; The number of reported cases of legal euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide in the Netherlands increased in 2005 for the third year in a row, a Dutch agency said Thursday.
The figures released by the Regional Oversight Boards for Euthanasia showed doctors reported 1,933 cases in 2005, up from 1,886 in 2004 and 1,815 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holland to allow &#8216;baby euthanasia&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/13848/holland-to-allow-baby-euthanasia</link>
		<comments>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/13848/holland-to-allow-baby-euthanasia#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When Frank and Anitaï¿½s daughter Chanou was born with an extremely rare, incurable illness in August 2000, they knew that her life would be short and battled against the odds to make it happy.
They struggled around the clock against their babyï¿½s pain. ï¿½We tried all sorts of things,ï¿½ said Anita, a 37-year-old local government worker. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justices Uphold Oregon Assisted-Suicide Law</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/13284/justices-uphold-oregon-assisted-suicide-law</link>
		<comments>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/13284/justices-uphold-oregon-assisted-suicide-law#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In a Blow to Administration, Ruling Paves Way for Other States to Follow Suit
The Supreme Court upheld Oregon&#8217;s law on physician-assisted suicide yesterday, ruling that the Justice Department may not punish doctors who help terminally ill patients end their lives.
By a vote of 6 to 3, the court ruled that Attorney General John D. Ashcroft [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Court Clashes Over Assisted Suicide</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/12385/high-court-clashes-over-assisted-suicide</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, (AP) &#8212; New Chief Justice John Roberts stepped forward Wednesday as an aggressive defender of federal authority to block doctor-assisted suicide, as the Supreme Court clashed over an Oregon law that lets doctors help terminally ill patients end their lives.
The justices will decide if the federal government, not states, has the final say on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dutch government to set guidelines on infant euthanasia</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/12357/dutch-government-to-set-guidelines-on-infant-euthanasia</link>
		<comments>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/12357/dutch-government-to-set-guidelines-on-infant-euthanasia#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — The Dutch government intends to expand its current euthanasia policy, setting guidelines for when doctors may end the lives of terminally ill newborns with the parents&#8217; consent. 
A letter outlining the new directives will be submitted to parliament for discussion by mid-October, but the new policy will not require a vote or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Netherlands weighs expanded euthanasia law</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/10794/netherlands-weighs-expanded-euthanasia-law</link>
		<comments>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/10794/netherlands-weighs-expanded-euthanasia-law#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A new proposal calls for rules and expert panels to decide cases involving &#8220;people with no free will.&#8221;
AMSTERDAM - The Dutch government, the first to legalize euthanasia for some terminally ill people, will tackle an even thornier ethical dilemma - what to do when doctors say it is best to end the lives of infants, [...]]]></description>
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