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16 Smith ⦁ ANH and PVS Patients 34 Hazel J. Markwell and Barry F. Brown,” Bioethics for Clinicians: 27 Catholic Bioethics,” in Canadian Medical Association Journal , volume 165, number 2 (July 24, 2001), p. 189. 35 Deborah Bennett-Woods, “Catholic Moral Tradition” in Ethics at a Glance , Regis University, Denver, CO (2005), Internet: http://rhchp.regis.edu/HCE/EthicsAtAGlance/index.html (accessed April 19, 2015). 36 Ibid. 37 Ibid. 38 USCCB, ERD5 , p. 31. 39 USCCB, ERD5 , p. 29. 40 Markwell and Brown, “Bioethics”, p. 189. 41 Ibid. 42 See, e.g., Michael R. Panicola, “Catholic Teaching on Prolonging Life: Setting the Record Straight,” in Hastings Center Report , volume 31, number 6 (November-December 2007), pp. 14-25. 43 Mackler, Introduction , p. 86. See also Gerald Kelly, “The Duty of Using Artificial Means of Preserving Life,” in Theological Studies , volume 12, number 4 (December 1951), pp. 203-220; and Kate Jackson, “Lessons from Gerald Kelly, S.J., the Father of American Catholic Medical Ethics,” in Health Care Ethics USA , volume 23, number 2 (Spring 2015), pp. 7-18. 44 Ibid. p. 87. 45 Ibid. p. 89 46 Sacred Congregation of the Faith, Declaration on Euthanasia (1980), Part III. 47 Raanan Gillon, “Acts and Omissions, Killing and Letting Die,” in British Medical Journal , volume 292, number 6513 (January 11, 1986), pp. 126-127. 48 Ibid. p. 127. 49 Sacred Congregation of the Faith, Declaration on Euthanasia (1980), Conclusion. 50 James F. Keenan, “Assisted Suicide and the Distinction Between Killing and Letting Die,” in Catholic Medical Quarterly , volume 42, number 1 (May, 1992). Internet: http://www.cmq.org.uk/CMQ/1992/suicide_lettingdie.html (Accessed October 18, 2015). 51 Peter Clark, “Tube Feedings and PVS Patients: Ordinary or Extraordinary Means?” in Christian Bioethics , volume 12, number 1 (January 1, 2006), p. 57. 52 USCCB, ERD4 , p. 13. 53 Ibid. p. 14. 54 USCCB, ERD5 , p. 30. Directive 58 finds support in John Paul II, Allocution "Life Sustaining Treatments and the Vegetative State," March 20, 2004; Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, "Responses to Certain Questions

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