{"id":157304,"date":"2016-11-25T14:12:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T19:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=157304"},"modified":"2016-11-24T17:18:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T22:18:41","slug":"judge-rules-anorexic-woman-can-starve-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/judge-rules-anorexic-woman-can-starve-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge rules that anorexic woman can starve herself to death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The culture of death continues to grow in this country. A particularly disturbing example comes out of Morristown, New Jersey, where a judge has ruled that an anorexic woman can legally commit suicide by starving herself to death<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Judge Paul Armstrong ruled that a 29-year-old woman known as “A.G.” should be referred to palliative care and not have to undergo force-feeding against her will. A.G. is severely anorexic, and weighs somewhere between 60 and 69 pounds. She has been fighting a “near-lifelong” battle with anorexia, yet A.G.\u00a0and those\u00a0around her do not want her to undergo force-feeding. “The lessons of the landmark cases of Karen Ann Quinlan, Clare Conroy, Nancy Ellen Jobes, Kathleen Farrell, Hilda Peter, and Nancy Cruzan are that patients, their families, physicians, and their institutions remain proper cooperators in making the evolving and necessary difficult decisions fronting modern medicine,” Armstrong said.<\/p>\n

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