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Remember when Bush cut his vacation short (the only time he did it) to fly back to D.C. in the middle of the night so that he could sign a bill hastily drafted by Congress to save Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman in a persistent vegetative state?
It was a national debate which pitted the pro-life religious right with the pro-death-with-dignity everybody else.
Well -- right now -- there is a woman in a Texas hospital named Andrea Clark. Like Schiavo, she is being kept alive by machines.
But whereas Schiavo's legal guardian and husband wanted Schiavo to die with dignity, Clark's family and legal guardian are opposed to pulling the plug.
But early next week, the Texas hospital will pull the plug anyway, based on the decision of one single physician, and against the family's wishes.
How can the hospital get away with this?
It's all due to something called the Taxas Futile Care Law, signed into law in 1999 by then-Texas-governor George Bush. Essentially, it allows an ethics committee of a hospital to terminate terminal care even against the wishes of the family and the patient. .
| In Boston, an 11-year old girl lies in a coma. Like Terri Schiavo (remember her?), there is a court battle over whether her ventilator and feeding tubes should be removed.
The twist is that only one person is fighting for the girl's right-to-life -- the girl's father.
But he's more than the girl's father -- he's the guy who beat the girl so severely that she became comatose. Obviously, if the life support system is withdrawn, and she dies, he will be charged with murder.
That's a photo opportunity I want to see: Randell Terry, Bill O'Reilly, and the other right-to-lifers in a mass rally, sharing the stage with a child beater.
| Under threat of a lawsuit, Pro-Life Wisconsin pulled a news release accusing HospiceCare of murder in removing the feeding tubes of severely injured Marine Staff Sgt. Chad Simon, but the group has not, as requested, issued a public apology or retraction.
Simon, 32, of Monona, was injured by a bomb in Iraq in November. The father of a 6-year-old son, Simon never recovered from his war injuries and his family followed the wishes laid out in his living will that he not be kept artificially alive with food and water if he became permanently incapacitated.
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