No. 1990.
Government has no business intruding into the personal affairs.
Tell that to MS. He went to GOVERNMENT courts in order to dehydrate his wife to death.
Terri died because under Florida law
Florida law was changed in 1999 in order to include people like Terri.
(As far as I'm concerned, it was life support, life support is something that keeps you alive when in a natural state, you'd be dead)
You mean like a pacemaker? A colostomy? Oxygen tanks? Like heart bypass surgery? Cancer treatments? Anti-seizure medication?
You might read The Case of Theresa Schiavo By Joan Didion
Great points.
You nailed it, DJ. Why is a feeding tube so "artificially" different from the many treatments commonly received by so many to sustain life. Add kidney dialysis to your list.
My husband gets a shot 4x a year to prevent the advance of cancer. Who has a problem with the ever-increasing solutions of the medical field?
Florida lawmakers decided to decree that feeding tubes fall into the same category as life-support only recently.
Was it 1999? That year Terri Schiavo's right to live was in jeopardy.
We all have reason to fear that some circumstance just may put our right to live in the hands of the government.
Hopefully, more U.S. citizens will wake up to the threat.