Looks like the euthanasia lovers can no longer operate with impunity in Texas.
The Texas medical community, worried about growing opposition to the law that allows hospitals to stop life-sustaining treatment in medically futile cases, is now embracing major compromise in the hope of salvaging it.
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The compromise bill, sponsored by Rep. Dianne Delisi, chairman of the public health committee where the issue will be debated today, would extend to seven days the notification a family receives prior to the ethics committee; and to 21 days the time a patient's family has to look for a transfer.
The bill would also preclude hospitals from invoking the law in the case of patients whose only life-sustaining treatment is artificial hydration and nutrition. The 1999 law is silent on such cases, which would include patients like Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman whose end-of-life ordeal galvanized the nation in 2005.
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Delisi's bill is endorsed by The Texas Catholic Conference, the association of the state's 15 Roman Catholic dioceses, and Texas Alliance for Life, another right-to-life group. The Hughes-Deuell bill is endorsed by Not Dead Yet, a disability rights group, and Texas ACLU in addition to Texas Right to Life.
"I think things are going in the right direction, but there's still a huge chasm that needs to be bridged," said Elizabeth Graham, director of Texas Right to Life. "Rep. Delisi's bill still gives all the power to the hospitals."
Medical groups seek compromise on 'futile care' law
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Alan must have hit the right Keyes with this one, drawing the wrath of far left Media Mutters. These are just a couple of snippets. Read the whole thing.
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Summary: Appearing as a guest on KNUS' Backbone Radio to discuss embryonic stem cell research with conservative John Andrews, former Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes issued several false and misleading statements, such as "there are no ... benefits" from the research. Keyes also smeared Michael Schiavo for "doing his wife [Terri] to death through the courts so he could be free of the burden of her life."
On the April 22 broadcast of KNUS 710 AM's Backbone Radio, former Republican presidential and U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes made several false assertions regarding embryonic stem cell research. Further, he smeared Michael Schiavo, husband of the late Terri Schiavo, as "a self-serving, self-interested husband" who purportedly "[did] his wife to death through the courts so that he could be free of the burden of her life once he had run through the money that he could derive from her condition." Keyes falsely asserted that "there are no ... benefits" from research on embryonic stem cells, and claimed that "anyone who has actually listened to the debate and cares about the facts would know that." Finally, Keyes misleadingly asserted, "There have been over 70 breakthroughs using adult stem cells."
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KEYES: Well, I think that we saw this especially a couple years ago -- we just passed the anniversary of, of -- of her death -- with Terri Schiavo. Where you had some of the organizations like National Organization of Women -- who always claim that they're against spousal abuse and want to protect the interests of women -- forgot all about that. As we watched a spectacle of a self-serving, self-interested husband doing his wife to death through the courts so that he could be free of the burden of her life once he had run through the money that he could derive from her condition. It was really quite sick and disgusting.
Keyes' attack on Michael Schiavo was similar to one that Rocky Mountain News media critic and Independence Institute research director Dave Kopel made in July 2006 when he called him a "scumbag."
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