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File - In this Sept. 8, 2011 file photo, a firefighter sprays a hot spot at a home destroyed by wildfires, in Bastrop, Texas. Forestry officials say this year's wildfire threat will be highest in only some parts of Texas but even that danger isn't close to what happened three years ago when blazes burned more than 2,700 homes and blackening about 6,200 square miles. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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In this photo taken on Feb. 7, 2014, Belgian doctor Marc Van Hoey speaks with The Associated Press at his practice in Antwerp, Belgium. Belgium, one of the very few countries where euthanasia is legal, should take the unprecedented step this week of abolishing age restrictions on who can ask to be put to death. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
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In this photo taken on Feb. 7, 2014, Belgian professor and doctor, Gerlant Van Berlaer, poses at the University Hospital UZ in Brussels. Belgium, one of the very few countries where euthanasia is legal, should take the unprecedented step this week of abolishing age restrictions on who can ask to be put to death. Dr. Gerlant van Berlaer, a prominent Brussels pediatrician, said the beneficiaries should be teenage boys and girls who are in the advanced stages of cancer or other terminal illnesses, and suffering unbearable pain. Under current law, they must let nature take its course_or wait until they turn 18 and can ask to be euthanized. The Belgian Senate voted 50-17 on Dec. 12 to amend the country’s 2002 law on euthanasia to also apply it to minors, but only under certain additional conditions, including the need for parental consent and the requirement that any minor desiring euthanasia demonstrate a “capacity for discernment” to a psychiatrist and psychologist. The House of Representatives, the other chamber of Parliament, is scheduled to debate on Wednesday, Feb.12, 2014 whether to agree to the changes, and vote on them Thursday. Passage is widely expected. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
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FILE - This Jan. 6, 2012 file photo shows Jolene Loetscher at her home in Sioux Falls, S.D. On Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, South Dakota's Senate Education Committee unanimously approved a bill to establish a task force that would study the impact of child sexual abuse. The group would be named Jolene's Law Task Force after Jolene Loetscher, a victim of sexual assault as a child. The measure now goes to the full Senate. (AP Photo/Kristi Eaton, File)
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Pascal Tessier, a gay Boy Scout, smiles at a meeting where he received his Eagle Scout badge, Monday, Feb. 10, 2014, in Chevy Chase, Md. Tessier, of Maryland, has become one of the first openly gay scouts to reach the highest rank of Eagle, following a policy change to allow gay youth in the Boy Scouts of America. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)
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Pascal Tessier, left, a gay Boy Scout, receives his Eagle Scout badge from Troop 52 Scoutmaster Don Beckham, Monday, Feb. 10, 2014, in Chevy Chase, Md. Tessier, of Maryland, has become one of the first openly gay scouts to reach the highest rank of Eagle, following a policy change to allow gay youth in the Boy Scouts of America. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)
