Reply #24: well, well, well. Lookee at what I just read... [View All]

[lavenderdiva]

here is yet ANOTHER case of ANOTHER child in HOUSTON, where the hospital is wanting to terminate life support!

link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1431750

what is going on here in Houston? I live here, and am wondering if whenever I think I might be coming down with some disease or condition that may be terminal, I should move out of state? Seems all the hospitals around these parts are gung-ho to off me whether my family wants them to or not. In some of these cases, the family WANTED NO further treatment, and in some, the family wishes the life support continued. But since Shrub signed the infamous 1999 legislation allowing HOSPITALS to decide the course of treatment, not the family, it seems like all hell has broken loose.

Again, I have to ask, where is the MSM on this? Where are the Terry Schiavo jugglers? Where is Randall Terry? Why is noone outraged that this is even going on?

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ps. please don't think I am a right-to-lifer... I'm not. I believe that each case should be looked at independently, and the person themselves hopefully, signed a document stating their wishes clearly. If not, then the family's wishes should be considered. Of course, there are cases beyond any medical intervention, and in those cases, I believe it is far more merciful to let them go. However, I see no outrage from those very persons who made such a mockery of our 'system' while the Schiavo case was ongoing.