Tonight CNN covered the Texas Futile Care Law case involving Baby Emilio Gonzales. Wouldn't you know it -- President Bush got brought up "AGAIN". Some just have to make an issue about him signing this bill into law, while then trying to save Terri Schiavo. Must have a chance to call him a hypocrite. What would news be without getting that jab in?
First of all, I don't care who signed the bill into law. It is being abused! That is "the" issue at hand. All the other rubbish has no place in the debate about whether this law, as it stands, is flawed or not.
Because I can't always resist doing a little jabbing too...
My understanding is that this bill was meant to protect patients from physicians deciding care was futile and taking matters into his/her own hands about removing care personally deemed futile. So, if this is the case -- I wasn't there -- then what President Bush (then governor) thought he was signing was not a bad concept. How could he know it would then be used as a tool to take away patient and family rights?
In short, the comparison (as an irony), between him signing this bill into law and fighting to save Terri Schiavo's life, falls short of flying. As a matter of fact, it never got off the ground. It's nitpicking at its most obvious level.
President Bush signed the futile care bill into law? So what if he did? He certainly isn't the one abusing it -- that job goes to the physicians and so-called ethic committees that believe in 10 Day Life-Termination Notices! The job goes to them and so should the focus be on them and on fixing the law that so easily condemns people to death against their own wishes and the wishes of their family!
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