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Mbwuto · 03-21-2005, 01:50 PM

I don't know if this has been posted or not, but it's interesting

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...on/whbriefing/

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory...olitan/3084934

"And in what many liberal bloggers are calling an example of outright hypocrisy, Bush signed a Texas law in 1999 that created a legal mechanism to allow attending physicians and hospital ethics boards to pull the plug on patients -- even if that specifically contradicts patient or family wishes."

Whaddya know, when the media spotlight hits, the politicians run for cover.

I'm still largely undecided on this case. I don't believe Michael Schiavo is the monster the media enjoys making him out to be. He has publicly disavowed all financial gain from her death and has no reason for wanting Terri to die. Were he just trying to be rid of her he could have gotten a divorce. Rather it seems he is trying to carry out her wishes.

I have seen clips of her, and she is neither a vegetable or a severely retarded person(various media sources seem to angle for either extreme). Miracle cases have happened before, but I doubt anything will change for her. I suppose in the end I believe she should be left alive. Not for any real moral reason, but rather because she didn't put her wishes into documentation. A cop out? I suppose so, but one has to make a line somewhere.

03-21-2005, 01:50 PM	#250 (permalink)
Mbwuto Crazy	I don't know if this has been posted or not, but it's interesting http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...on/whbriefing/ http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory...olitan/3084934 "And in what many liberal bloggers are calling an example of outright hypocrisy, Bush signed a Texas law in 1999 that created a legal mechanism to allow attending physicians and hospital ethics boards to pull the plug on patients -- even if that specifically contradicts patient or family wishes." Whaddya know, when the media spotlight hits, the politicians run for cover. I'm still largely undecided on this case. I don't believe Michael Schiavo is the monster the media enjoys making him out to be. He has publicly disavowed all financial gain from her death and has no reason for wanting Terri to die. Were he just trying to be rid of her he could have gotten a divorce. Rather it seems he is trying to carry out her wishes. I have seen clips of her, and she is neither a vegetable or a severely retarded person(various media sources seem to angle for either extreme). Miracle cases have happened before, but I doubt anything will change for her. I suppose in the end I believe she should be left alive. Not for any real moral reason, but rather because she didn't put her wishes into documentation. A cop out? I suppose so, but one has to make a line somewhere.