Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, said the results of the study were “very encouraging to this woman and those treating her.” He said the same kind of tests “should be done on all people who have this kind of brain injury to help us determine whether they are in a persistent vegetative state or whether they are in a minimally conscious state and the degree to which there is any hope for recovery of brain function.”
The findings have rekindled the debate surrounding the starvation death of Terri Schiavo in 2005 and are prompting further discussion of long-term care for brain-damaged patients. Southern Baptist ethicists are calling the findings further proof that, when there is doubt, the justice system should side with life. They also said the justice system had clearly erred in the Schiavo case.
Study reveals brain activity of patient in ‘vegetative state’
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Callis said he would adhere to the principles of the early New Hampshire Republicans, who called for smaller government.
"I wouldn't be wasting my time with frivolous legislation," Callis said. "I think in New Hampshire, we have a long history of leaving the Constitution alone."
He said congressional GOP leaders erred when they intervened in the Terri Schiavo case, in which Florida courts had ruled doctors could remove a feeding tube from a brain-damaged woman, and when they supported a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
Callis will challenge Bradley in primary
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