Posted on 03/23/2005 9:34:22 PM PST by CaptBlack
This is an amended post from my personal blog. I post it here because I expect it to take off like crazy in the MSM as their "counter-argument" when the Dems start taking heat for their murderous stance on Terri Schiavo.
A comment was left by "Mike" who, after making his accusation, failed to substantiate his claim with any facts, a common practice of Leftists, it seems. He asserts that President Bush, as Governor of Texas, signed a bill then that makes him a hypocrite in his stand on Terri Schiavo now. I have just two things to say to that kind of comment.
First, it shows what kind of persons people like Mike are, that they are so uncaring, so hardhearted and hateful, that they are more concerned with President Bush's consistency than they are with the life hanging in the balance. Putting aside whether or not Bush signed whatever in his days as governor, what does that have to do with whether or not Terri Schiavo should be consigned to a bitter and cruel death? Answer: Nothing. But it just shows how extreme and hateful some people have become in their Bush-hatred. Even the cruel death of someone who probably has never even met President Bush doesn't merit attention, just whether or not BUSH is consistent.
Secondly, since he raised the question, I looked it up. Apparently, "Mike" gets his facts from the New York Times which, these days, is something like an attractive young woman accepting a drive over a bridge from Ted Kennedy...but I digress.
The 1999 Advanced Directive Act, we are told,
"...allows for a patient's surrogate to make end-of-life decisions and spells out how to proceed if a hospital or other health provider disagrees with a decision to maintain or halt life-sustaining treatment.
If a doctor refuses to honor a decision, the case goes before a medical committee. If the committee agrees with the doctor, the guardian or surrogate has 10 days to agree or seek treatment elsewhere.
Thomas Mayo, an associate law professor at Southern Methodist University who helped draft the Texas law, said that if the Schiavo case had happened in Texas, her husband would have been her surrogate decision-maker. Because both he and her doctors were in agreement, life support would have been discontinued.
The Texas law does not include a provision for dealing with conflicts among family members who disagree with the surrogate decision-maker -- as has happened in the Schiavo case -- although in practice hospital ethics committees would try to resolve such disputes, he said.
For the willfully obtuse and thickheaded "Mikes" out there who like a child that has lost the argument, rocks itself murmuring "Bush lied! People died! Bush lied! People died!", let me emphasize the key portions. Let me give you something else more instructive to chant: TERRI'S NOT ON LIFE SUPPORT! TERRI'S NOT ON LIFE SUPPORT! and add to it this, "MICHAEL LIED SO TERRI DIED!"
Read the article closely and note that this act:
So please, if you have a bone to pick with President Bush, by all means, take it up on your blog, but don't come here demeaning and further diminishing the humanity of a woman being executed publicly for the crime of being inconvenient to a callous husband by papering over her murder with cheap shots at the President.
Save that for the "paper of record."
I heard Susan Estritch say tonight that people need to remember we are a nation of laws, not men. That's hilarious coming from her. What she really believes is, we are a nation of men {the judiciary}, not laws {acts of Congress}.
What is it with some people, named "Mike"?
Only Governor Bush can save Terri at this time.
CONTACT JEB BUSH HERE:
E-mail: jeb.bush@myflorida.com
Telephone: 850/488-4441
Fax: 850/487-0801
What is it with some people, named "Mike"?
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Careful... Mike Savage might chew your ears off with his exquisite response !!! ;-))
That was the reason for "some people" and to get us back on track I will throw in Mike Tyson
That was the reason for "some people" and to get us back on
track I will throw in Mike Tyson
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Off track error at the switch.
Tyson fights with his teeth...
Savage fights with his words !!! ;-))
I'm glad someone finally posted about this. I've been hearing it from the anti-Terri people for two days about the case in Houston in which the baby was removed from "life support" against the mother's wishes.
Yeah, there's a difference between "life support" and food. Excellent point. But, still, the parent, not the doctors, should make the decision about when.
Here's more to the story: http://www.ktvu.com/news/4286333/detail.html
And, yeah, her final statements are a bit "off", but she obviously loved her child.
Looks like this story is also being discussed here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1369443/posts
Another case referenced there about another child removed from life support in TX...?
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