Posted on 03/21/2005 5:14:06 PM PST by ambrose
Sure, from Waaaaay back in post 4
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/statutes/docs/HS/content/htm/hs.002.00.000166.00.htm
However that is not the law in Floriduh I believe.... and there are still all those other laws that have been broken both by Michael and Greer.
I think you guys are talking about two different Governor Bush-es.
see post above - then-gov George Bush, not Jeb Bush.
"WHAT IN THE HELL LAW ARE YOU RAVING ABOUT???????"
hey, I just reread what you posted a little bit back and you seem to know already know this law (yes, it's Texas not Florida, I know, I was just pointing out the irony). So if you were not asking about this one which one are you asking for?
"I think you guys are talking about two different Governor Bush-es."
Yes, correct, I should have been more clear, my bad.
The only daily deaths of children in the thousands are in abortion clinics. You just lost any credibility you may have had on this subject.
Of course we do ultimately do put a value on life. We like to think that we don't, but we do every day. If a dying child could live one extra day at a cost of the entire GNP of the world, that cost could not reasonably be spent. Just as there are reasonable limits put on the dispensation of resources in all of heath care.
If there is only one surgeon available in the ER a a given moment, and two cases arrive, one that has a 1% chance of survival after surgery and another that has a 99% chance of survival after surgery... it would be *wrong* to allocate the surgeon to the 1% case at the expense of the 99% case.
Thousands of lives are taken on the highways every year, and yet we continue to allow cars to exist, because we are *willing* to accept the casualties in trade for the benefit of convenient travel.
Many soldiers' lives are expended in defense of liberty and freedom. This is a cost we are willing to bear because we believe that there are good and rightful things worth fighting and dying for.
Life has a price, and we willingly pay it every day. But this does not mean that we willingly waste it when there is an alternative. In Terri's case, there is an alternative.
OK, just what are you saying that Bush is responsible for? HINT: not much!!!!
A neonatal ICU plus neonatologist, other professional fees, and expenses, etc. is going to cost closer to $10K/day than to $1000 per day.
Of course, mom didn't have to pay anything.
BTW, I don't have anything against government-paid neonatal care for the indigent. (Oh, I suppose I'd prefer voluntary charity to government Medicaid, but that battle was decided long ago in favor of the liberals.) It's just that the payer should make the call on when it's ethical to pull the plug.
Yes, I know all about Texas. I know nothing about Florida. George Bush is totally clean in Texas, although I think that we have a lousy death culture law that he could help us out on. What else are you saying????
Well hopefully that clears up some misunderstandings here. :-)
Relax, I wasn't attacking anyone.
I posted a link to the law that was referd to in the article. Terrrigal noticed how this law HAD IT BEEN IN FLORIDA (which it was not) directly related to the Terri case (not Terrigal, the other terri). I pointed out the irony of this being a law signed by now President Bush, who is now arguing AGAINST a situation covered in a law he previously signed.
Thats it, interesting, ironic and completely meaning less in the case of Florida, but this thread is about Texas and this law is directly referenced in the article so here IT IS appropriate.
" The only daily deaths of children in the thousands are in abortion clinics. You just lost any credibility you may have had on this subject."
Nonsense. Thousands of children die daily from diarreal diseases, measles, pneumonia, cholera, malaria, etc., which are inexpensively preventable or treatable. The number is inherently imprecise, but it's around 25,000 dead kids/day. The cost of preventing the majority of these deaths is about $100 per child through age 10.
http://www.child-survival.org/stateof.html
http://www.childinfo.org/cmr/revis/db2.htm
Note that this does not include HIV/AIDS, which is much more expensive and problematic, just the diseases that affluent nations have conquered for the past 60-100 years.
Thanatophoric Dysplasia is a disease that is terminal in the period shortly after birth. This has nothing to do with "psychos" being terminated.
http://www.emedicine.com/PED/topic2233.htm
It's called a belief in the sanctity of life.
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