AMA Opposes Force Feedings At Guantanamo by Carol Rosenberg. The Miami Herald. April 30, 2013.
The president of the AMA in his letter to Secretary Hagel cited his organization's long-time support for the World Medical Association Declaration of Tokyo which states: "Where a prisoner refuses nourishment and is considered by the physician as capable of forming an unimpaired and rational judgment concerning the consequences of such a voluntary refusal of nourishment, he or she she shall not be fed artificially."
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