{"id":7631,"date":"2017-04-29T14:40:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T21:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7631"},"modified":"2018-03-04T20:18:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T04:18:50","slug":"belgian-catholic-psychiatric-hospitals-adjust-their-view-of-euthanasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7631","title":{"rendered":"Belgian Catholic psychiatric hospitals ‘adjust’ their view of euthanasia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the last substantial barriers to increasing the number of euthanasia cases for non-terminally-ill psychiatric patients in Belgium seems to have crumbled.\u00a0 A religious order in the Catholic Church, the Brothers of Charity, is responsible for a large proportion of beds for psychiatric patients in Belgium \u2013 about 5,000 of them. The international head of the order, Brother Ren\u00e9 Stockman, is a Belgian who has been one of the leading opponents of euthanasia in recent years.\u00a0 Nonetheless, in a surprise move this week, the board controlling the institutions of the Brothers of Charity announced that from now on, it will allow euthanasia to take place in their psychiatric hospitals. . . . Full Text<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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