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Schiavo v Other Cases: Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds  
nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/006178.htm

These same guys who’re enthusiastic about the death penalty, nonchalant about military and civilian deaths in Iraq, and perfectly ready to cut funding for everything from prenatal care to basic public health and safety infrastructure, invoked an extrajudicial, extraconstitutional “culture of life” to justify their media coverage-oriented meddling in the Schiavo case.

Back in his Texas days, Bush happily signed legislation that made it easier for hospitals to pull the tubes on unresponsive patients, even ones whose known wishes ran contrary to it, whose families were opposed to it, and who might conceivably have had a better-than-zero chance of recovery.

What made the difference? That legislation back then was about money. This legislation now is about votes.

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/006178.html#77359
The extra special fun part of Bush's having signed that law in Texas is that it has apparently recently led to a black baby in that state having HIS feeding tube pulled--against the express wishes of the mother.

www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3087387
Baby dies after hospital removes breathing tube
Case is the first in which a judge allowed a hospital to discontinue care
March 16, 2005, 12:10PM
By LEIGH HOPPER
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle
[permalink] posted by Mez at 11:32 pm