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Skriven 2005-03-27 17:18:30 av RICHARD JOHNSON (1:10/345)
     Kommentar till en text av GARY BRASWELL
Ärende: RE: Sanctity of life
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On 3/27/05 5:10 PM, GARY BRASWELL wrote to RICHARD JOHNSON:


-> How exactly is Ed a liar?

Mr. Ed claims no knowledge of the following:

From the Seattle Times, 3/22/05:

"In 1999, then-Gov. Bush signed the Advance Directives Act, which lets a
patient's surrogate make life-ending decisions on his or her behalf. The
measure also allows Texas hospitals to disconnect patients from life-sustaining
systems if a physician, in consultation with a hospital bioethics committee,
concludes that the patient's condition is hopeless.

"Bioethicists familiar with the Texas law said yesterday that if the Schiavo
case had occurred in Texas, her husband would be the legal decision-maker and,
because he and her doctors agreed that she had no hope of recovery, her feeding
tube would be disconnected.

"'The Texas law signed in 1999 allowed next of kin to decide what the patient
wanted, if competent,' said John Robertson, a University of Texas
bioethicist..."

and more recently in Houston:

"...the plight of Baby Sun Hudson has gone largely unnoticed. The 5-month-old
Texas boy was ordered removed from a ventilator over the objections of his
mother, Wanda Hudson, and he died shortly after that. That was allowed to
happen because Texas has a law which allows medical personnel to make the final
call over life and death and the baby had a genetic disorder that prevented his
lungs from growing..."

Given that the law passed in 1999 was fairly devisive in Texas and was not
passed on the QT, either Mr. Ed was in a coma or otherwise unconscious at the
time or he is lying through his teeth.  I opt for the latter.

Given the Baby Sun Hudson case, while unnoticed in the national press, has been
in Texas news media, both print and electronic, the same conditions regarding
Mr. Ed apply when he says he was not aware of the 1999 law signed by
then-governor Bush.  Again, I opt for the latter, ie: Mr. Ed is a liar, and not
a very good one at that.



 
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