{"id":44,"date":"2009-02-03T02:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/italian-woman-moved-to-hospital-where-she-can-die.html"},"modified":"2009-02-03T02:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T02:46:00","slug":"italian-woman-moved-to-hospital-where-she-can-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/italian-woman-moved-to-hospital-where-she-can-die.html","title":{"rendered":"Italian woman moved to hospital where she can die"},"content":{"rendered":"Date: 2\/3\/2009<br \/><br \/>ROME (AP) \u2014 A woman at the center of Italy&#8217;s right-to-die debate was transferred Tuesday to a hospital where she is to be allowed to die after 17 years in a vegetative state.<br \/><br \/>Eluana Englaro was moved to the northeastern city of Udine overnight, said family lawyer Vittorio Angiolini.<br \/><br \/>A small crowd of anti-euthanasia activists gathered outside the clinic in Lecco, where she had been cared for, seeking to prevent the ambulance from leaving, TV footage showed. Some were shouting &#8220;Eluana, Wake Up!&#8221;<br \/><br \/>Englaro has been in a vegetative state since a car accident in 1992, when she was 20. Her father has led a protracted court battle to disconnect her feeding tube, insisting it was her wish.<br \/><br \/>An Italian court in the summer granted his request, setting off a political storm in the Roman Catholic country.<br \/><br \/>Her father then sought to have her removed from the Catholic clinic in Lecco to Udine, in the region where the family is from. But the government issued a decree last month telling state hospitals that they must guarantee care for people in vegetative states, leading at least one hospital in Udine to refuse to take Englaro.<br \/><br \/>She was moved overnight to La Quiete, a private clinic.<br \/><br \/>Welfare Minister Maurizio Sacconi said the government is looking into the situation.<br \/><br \/>Italy does not allow euthanasia. Patients have a right to refuse treatment but there is no law that allows them to give advance directions on what treatment they wish to receive if they become unconscious.<br \/><br \/>The case has provoked the strong reaction of the Vatican, which is opposed to euthanasia. Pope Benedict XVI said this weekend that euthanasia is a &#8220;false solution&#8221; to suffering.<br \/><br \/>Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, the pope&#8217;s health minister, told La Repubblica that removing Englaro&#8217;s feeding tube &#8220;is tantamount to an abominable assassination and the church will always say that out loud.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 2\/3\/2009ROME (AP) \u2014 A woman at the center of Italy&#8217;s right-to-die debate was transferred Tuesday to a hospital where she is to be allowed to die after 17 years in a vegetative state.Eluana Englaro was moved to the northeastern city of Udine overnight, said family lawyer Vittorio Angiolini.A small crowd of anti-euthanasia activists gathered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[155,156,157,154,153],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-euthanasia","tag-italian-right-to-die-case","tag-long-term-coma","tag-right-to-die","tag-vegetative-state"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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