Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Bush's Culture of Life - Take Off the Life Support
A patient in Houston is about to be zapped because she has bed sores.
A law in Texas allows Texas hospitals to withdraw life support if their "ethics committee" decides to give the go ahead.
Don't believe me?!?
Well, at St. Luke's Hospital in Houston, a 54-year old who has health insurance went to the hospital for heart surgery, survived and then developed complications as well as bed sores.
Dixon is the patient's sister, Andrea Clark; and says Clark has communicated with her by blinking her eyes.The patient is not brain dead, and according to her family, she wants to live.
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“They just say, ‘well she’s miserable.’ Well, to me that’s a quality of life decision that is up to her and her family,” Lanore Dixon said. “That is not a medical decision.”
Never you mind, the insurance company and hospital are tired of taking care of her; and the only "requirement is that the hospital...give a family 10 days notice to find another facility that would care for their loved one."
“If their ethics committee makes a decision, it doesn’t matter what the patient wants,” Dixon said. “It doesn’t even apparently matter what the patient’s condition is, because our sister is not in a coma, she’s not brain dead,” Dixon said.Yes siree, our man of God signed this nefarious bill into law in 1999, right before he ran for president as a compassionate conservative with his culture of life agenda. More proof that Bush is a Pharisee Christian; all public talk and no private deeds.
But as Easter Lemming News points out, the left and right are in an uproar; as they should be!
// posted by Howling Latina @ 11:08 AM 
