From the National Review Online:

"Yet Terri is no criminal, and she's not brain dead. She isn't even in a coma. She suffers from a trauma-induced disability which has left her disabled. While the courts and the pundits seem willing to be led by Michael Schiavo and his attorney George Felos, Terri's story clearly resonates with Americans who hear the details, including many of our politicians and our congressional leadership."

I just have one question. Where were all of you and your "outrage" when President Bush (then Governor of Texas) signed this law?

Section 166.046, Subsection (e): If the patient or the person responsible for the health care decisions of the patient is requesting life-sustaining treatment that the attending physician has decided and the review process has affirmed is inappropriate treatment, the patient shall be given available life-sustaining treatment pending transfer under Subsection (d). The patient is responsible for any costs incurred in transferring the patient to another facility. The physician and the health care facility are not obligated to provide life-sustaining treatment after the 10th day after the written decision required under Subsection (b) is provided to the patient or the person responsible for the health care decisions of the patient … (hat tip to thinkprogress.org)

This also from Think Progress:

"Bioethicists familiar with the Texas law said yesterday that if the Schiavo case had occurred in Texas, her husband would be the legal decision-maker and, because he and her doctors agreed that she had no hope of recovery, her feeding tube would be disconnected."

With the above law, the inability to pay for health care can be enough to take the same action that is happening in the Schiavo case even against the will of the family. So again I ask, where was the outrage when this was passed into law? Why were these same people who are so outspoken now silent in regards to George W. Bush when he signed this law into effect? Why isn't my Republican controlled House and Senate here in Texas rushing to repeal this law even as we speak? Maybe it has to do with headlines?

¶ 3/23/2005 01:53:00 PM

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