
By Matt Bush
Patients at local Catholic hospitals could be forced to stay on life support against their own wishes.
A new mandate from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops puts a stronger emphasis on providing food and water to all patients in a persistive vegatative state in Catholic hospitals. That would even include non-Catholic patients, and those who do not wish to be kept on life support.
Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring would not comment on the mandate.
Virginia's attorney general Ken Cuccinelli will face former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe in November to become Virginia's 72nd governor.

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