The Senate will on Monday debate emergency legislation to put a long-comatose Italian accident victim back on life support, even though her family has won a court battle to let her die.
Doctors in Udine, northeast Italy, stopped feeding Eluana Englaro on Friday amid a flurry of efforts to stop the mercy killing, with conservative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi accused of politicising the affair.
President Giorgio Napolitano refused to sign an emergency cabinet decree on Friday that would prevent doctors from withholding food from Englaro, who has been in a coma for 17 years following a traffic accident. She now is 38.
Now the Italian parliament, where Berlusconi enjoys comfortable majorities in both the upper and lower chambers, will vote on legislation designed to force doctors to keep Englaro alive.
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