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(82,333 posts) Wed Jul 6, 2016, 08:42 AM Jul 2016

Catholic nursing home in Belgium fined for refusing euthanasia request

By Rosie Scammell | 22 hours ago

(RNS) A Belgian court has fined a Catholic care home for refusing to let a terminally ill woman receive a lethal injection on their property.

In 2011, doctors went to the Sint-Augustinus nursing home in Diest, northern Belgium, to carry out a euthanasia request by Mariette Buntjens, a 74-year-old woman who was suffering from terminal lung cancer.

But the medics were refused access by staff at the Catholic home, Flanders Today reported.

Relatives of the cancer patient later moved her out of Sint-Augustinus so she could be given the injection.

http://religionnews.com/2016/07/05/catholic-nursing-home-in-belgium-fined-for-refusing-euthanasia-request/

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