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Callahan, director of the Hastings Center, does not deny the logic of arguments for the discontinuation of feeding under some circumstances, he expresses a "stubborn emotional repugnance" against it. He fears that withholding of nutrition is one psychological step removed from accepting withdrawal of respirators, and warns of the danger of attempting to tamper the most fundamental of human relationships and moral obligations--the of nourishment. (KIE abstract)
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