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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (1645)	3/20/2005 12:10:32 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

Tom DeLay, delighted to keep public attention away from his ethical problems and his less attractive congressional activities, has plunged into the Terry Schiavo fight with both feet House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, said that he and other Republican members of Congress would continue to work through the weekend to come up with a bill to force doctors to reinsert Terri Schiavo's feeding tube. Mind you, Ms. Schiavo's higher brain centers have been replaced by liquids, so we're not talking about rehabilitation here. We're talking about the uninhabited body of Ms. Schiavo being kept alive as long as intensive medical care can keep it alive without higher brain centers. _____________________________________________________________ All Patients on Life Support Are Equal Some Are Less Equal Than Others Not to mention a different color: The baby wore a cute blue outfit with a teddy bear covering his bottom. The 17-pound, nearly 6-month-old boy wiggled with eyes open, his mother said, and smacked his lips. Then at 2 p.m. Tuesday, a medical staffer at Texas Children's Hospital gently removed the breathing tube that had kept Sun Hudson alive since his birth Sept. 25. Cradled by his mother, he took a few breaths, and died . . . Sun's death marks the first time a U.S. judge has allowed a hospital to discontinue an infant's life-sustaining care against a parent's wishes, according to bioethical experts.” George Bush signed the law which allows the hospitals to make this decision. Houston Chronicle Baby dies after hospital removes breathing tube March 16, 2005 Of course, being born in Texas didn't help, either: Texas law allows hospitals to discontinue life-sustaining care, even if a patient's family members disagree. A doctor's recommendation must be approved by a hospital's ethics committee, and the family must be given 10 days from written notice of the decision to try and locate another facility for the patient. Texas Children's said it contacted 40 facilities with newborn intensive care units, but none would accept Sun.