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Texas Futile Care Law is challenged...

Looks like the Texas Futile Care law doesn't stand up under the spotlight!

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Austin, TX (LifeNews.com) -- Texas legislators debated a bill on Thursday that would stop hospitals from involuntarily euthanizing some of their most vulnerable patients. The legislation revises the futility care law that has come under national condemnation for allowing medical facilities to give families just 10 days to find places to care for their loved ones.

With names such as Emilio Gonzales and Andrea Clark making the headlines, pro-life advocates and disability rights activists have complained about the futility care law.

The statute allows hospitals and other medical facilities that believe a patient is too far gone to help to give their families just 10 days to find another facility that will offer the treatment or lifesaving medical care.

The Senate Health and Human Services Committee head testimony in favor of the measure, which would void the 10-day allowance.

Sen. Bob Deuell, a physician, is the sponsor of the bill, Senate Bill 439, which would still allow doctors and hospitals to relinquish care of a patient but only after the patient has been successfully transferred to another physician or hospital willing to honor the patient's directive......................................

"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."

Texas Legislature Debates Bill to Scrap 10-Day Futility Care Law

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Another view on the Texas Futile Care law and Emilio...

The case has brought Texas' "futile care" law into the limelight. The 1999 state law empowers a hospital ethics committee to agree with doctors who believe further treatment of a patient is medically futile and to require the patient to be transferred within 10 days or have his care discontinued.

"This is a value judgment," wrote bioethics specialist Wesley Smith on his weblog at bioethics.com. "Members of ethics committees should have no right to impose their values over those of patients and families. Let us hope the Texas legislature revokes Texas' misbegotten futile care law."

Emilio's mother, Catarina Gonzales, 23, told NRL News she realizes there is "no cure" for her son.

"I know my son is going to die," she said. "But I want him to die when God calls him, not when someone pulls the plug."

LIFE DIGEST: Judge blocks Texas hospital's termination of care for young boy; ...

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>> "But others in the medical community opposed it and even called it a "political and fundraising stunt" by groups who disagree with the law."

Right, standing up for fundamental rights and for life itself is a cheap fundraising gimmick.

I wonder what objection these high-minded purveyors of death have to yesterday's slaughter at Virginia Tech. What could they object to? Aren't those kids all "better off being with Jesus"?