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To: Earthdweller
Did you know that the AMA (American Medical Association) just passed a ruling ...

Yes, quite aware. Aware enough to know that you mischaracterized it.

What the AMA did was adopt a policy (they don't "rule") to oppose any proposed legislation that would presume patients would want life-sustaining treatment unless it is clear that they would not.

There are a lot of very bad proposals being made, and the AMA is right not to back presumptuous ones.

114 posted on 07/08/2005 7:18:08 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Gondring
"to oppose any proposed legislation that would presume patients would want life-sustaining treatment unless it is clear that they would not."

You know that is simply a play on words to make it go down the public throat better.

It means they want us to prove we want to live first..period..

They don't want any know-it-all State legislators to get in their way of reining in their precious age of the presumption of death.

117 posted on 07/08/2005 7:26:29 PM PDT by Earthdweller (US descendant of French Protestants_"Where there is life, there is hope"..Terri Schindler)
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