21.  They worry that health-care workers will withhold treatment from abused children, lest they be seen as interfering with child rearing.

22.  Treatment had been withheld from black men with syphilis so researchers could study the progress of the disease.

23.  Yet those with reservations acknowledge they are also uneasy about withholding a treatment that might stop infection.

24.  Would the system create an incentive for unscrupulous caregivers to withhold treatment from sick patients and pocket the money?

25.  In appealing their case to the Texas Supreme Court, the Millers say state and common law allowed them to withhold treatment.

26.  Six other children in the church have died after medical treatment was withheld.

27.  Satcher, Ashcroft said, had backed AIDS studies in Africa that withheld treatment from some pregnant women with HIV to test the effect of a new approach.

28.  Satcher, Ashcroft said, had backed controversial AIDS studies in Africa that withheld treatment from some pregnant women with HIV to test the effect of a new approach.

29.  Should treatment be withheld?

30.  The parents of a girl whose cancer grew to nearly fill her abdominal cavity after they withheld medical treatment were convicted Monday of inflicting grievous bodily harm.