The High Court has lifted an injunction banning a man from taking his chronically-sick wife to Switzerland for an assisted suicide.

AMSTERDAM - A hospital in the Netherlands - the first nation to permit euthanasia - recently proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newborns, and then made a startling revelation: It has already begun carrying out such procedures, which include administering a lethal dose of sedatives.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Four times in recent months, Dutch doctors have pumped lethal doses of drugs into newborns they believe are terminally ill, setting off a new phase in a growing European debate over when, if ever, it's acceptable to hasten death for the critically ill.

AMSTERDAM — Raising concern about possible unregulated euthanasia cases, researchers have claimed that Dutch doctors administer "terminal sedation" in four to 10 percent of patient deaths.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) - Florida legislators hastily approved a bill on Tuesday that would let the governor overrule a court order and force doctors to restore the feeding tube removed from a severely brain-damaged woman last week.

BRUSSELS – Belgium could be carrying out many more euthanasia procedures than officially recorded, it was claimed Tuesday.

The Telegraph (England), Feb. 2, 2003

Reutes, Dec. 24, 2002