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The English high court has told a health authority that it can stop giving food and drink to a 38 year-old woman who had been in a coma for nearly two years," SPUC News reported on 23 July 03. John Smeaton of SPUC said: "The Bland judgment began the practice of starving and dehydrating patients with PVS. Lord Mustill, one of the judges in that case, said it left the law 'morally and intellectually misshapen'. Yesterday's judgment is part of that trend and it makes it now all the more urgent that we oppose the Government's Draft Mental Incapacity Bill which will extend the practice to patients in a broad range of types of incapacity."
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