Response to the Consortium of Jesuit Bioethics Programs Statement “Undue Burden?”

Consortium of Jesuit Bioethics Programs, “Undue Burden? The Vatican and Artificial Nutrition and Hydration,” Commonweal 136.3 (February 13, 2009): 13–15.

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, 3rd and 4th eds. (Washington, D.C.: USCCB, 1994, 2001).

Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, “Responses to Certain Questions of the USCCB Concerning Artificial Nutrition and Hydration,” August 1, 2007; John Paul II, Address to the participants in the international congress on “Life-Sustaining Treatments and the Vegetative State: Scientific Advances and Ethical Dilemmas” March 20, 2004.