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fryguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 05:25 PM
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where were the GOP protectors of life in Texas?
Edited on Mon Mar-21-05 05:26 PM by fryguy
....sorry if a dupe....

why isn't anyone in the media mentioning this dichotomy? pResident "culture of life" seemed quite the opposite back in texas, not only with his love of the death penalty but also in signing the futile care law....


http://salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html?blog=/politics/war_room/2005/03/21/schiavo4/index.html

A Texas woman named Wanda Hudson watched her six-month-old baby die in her arms after doctors removed the breathing tube that kept him alive. Hudson didn't want the tube removed, but the baby's doctors decided for her. A judge signed off on the decision under the Texas futile care law -- a provision first signed into law in 1999 by then-Gov. George W. Bush.

Under the 1999 law, doctors in Texas can, with the support of a hospital ethics committee, can overrule the wishes of family members and terminate life-support measures if they believe further care would be futile. Bush signed the bill after interested parties, including anti-abortion activists, agreed on compromise language that required hospitals to give families 10 days' notice before terminating care and to help families find an alternative treatment facility that would continue care instead.

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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 05:28 PM
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1. The man has no principles whasoever. He is the epitome of hypocrisy.
Edited on Mon Mar-21-05 05:31 PM by BrklynLiberal
Whaever fits the moment is what he will embrace. He is hollow and totally tansparent...like a pliant glass tube. There is no substance to him. he merely reflects and vomits back the subject of the moment as his handlers tell him to.
It would be an insult to parrots to call him a parrot. They are more sophisticated and emotionally deeper than he is.
ON EDIT: Oh yes. They are smarter than he is, too.
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DesEtoiles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 05:31 PM
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2. Please send that comment to media using list pinned at top of Media forum
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Snotcicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 05:45 PM
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3. This would be a good issue for someone of high
ethical standards like, say, Paula Zahn.
Well on second thought.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 05:55 PM
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4. Lobbying for insurance companies
Edited on Mon Mar-21-05 05:56 PM by sfexpat2000
just ask reporter Brett Shipp. He's been on this for years now.

BShipp@wfaa.com

/typo
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girl gone mad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 05:59 PM
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5. The National Right to Life Council helped draft this legislation..
And yet people believe that they are concerned with preserving a culture of life?

They are no better than all of the phony environmental groups which promote the corporate polluter's agenda.
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fryguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 06:38 PM
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6. didn't know they were a part of it....
.....sounds utterly hypocritical - so par for the course for the wingers
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