Bush's law in Texas gives hospitals right to pull plug...

but Bush's new "Terri" law reverses that.

Can we say "HYPOCRITE"?

Hell yeah we can.

So rethugs, how do you like your BIG GOVERNMENT you always said you stood against???

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Lynn; will add this from News Hounds as follows along with your post if ok. Thanks, Jon

While FOX News reporters fall over each other trying to prove their concern for the life of Terri Schiavo, nobody is reporting about the cases in Texas where life support is being removed by hospitals over the objections of family members. The law allowing that to happen was signed in 1999 by then-governor George W. Bush.

Lest anyone thinks this is a case of Bush "evolving" in his opinions, just five days ago a Texas hospital removed life support from a baby over the objections of his mother. Yet Bush never made a peep. Neither did FOX News.

According to FOX, keeping Schiavo alive was so important to Bush that he flew back to the White House to sign a bill that Congress planned to enact just for that purpose (no coverage, of course, from FNC about why Congress is focusing on this state court decision involving a private, family matter). From an AP story, FOXNews.com reported:

During previous travels, Bush has had legislation flown to him overnight by military plane for his signature. But in this case, McClellan said that the fact that a woman's life is at stake made it necessary for him to travel to the bill. "Terri Schiavo's feeding tube has been removed and we stand with ... all those who are working to defend her life," he said.
So why does Bush think Schiavo's life is worth saving but the baby's isn't? Could it have something to do with finances? In another case of a Texas hospital trying to cut off life support over the objections of a family, The Houston Chronicle reports,

http://www.newshounds.us/2005/03/20/bush_hypocrisy_on_terri_schiavo_ignored_by_fox_the_real_journalism_network.php#more

It will be a 'throwaway line" at the tail end of a big "save terry" extravaganza on opposite American Idol....

bah

http://www.whitehouse.gov/interactive/interact_1.html

concerning the Texas law verses the Terri law.

I included this link:

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/healthlawprof_blog/2005/03/lifesupport_sto.html

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"(I hasten to add that one of the co-drafters in both 1999 and 2003 was the National Right to Life Committee. Witnesses who testified in support of the bill in 1999 included representatives of National Right to Life, Texas Right to Life, and the Hemlock Society. Our bill passed both houses, unanimously, both years, and the 1999 law was signed by then Governor George W. Bush.)"


They don't seem to be posting my question/concerns on the site. (go figure) :eyes: