I've read about the comments about Tom Delay's decision to terminate his father's life. I don't know enough about the circumstances of his father's injuries or awareness level. To pass judgment on Delay's decision without knowing all the facts would make me a hypocrite. Sort of like Delay is in his commentary about Michael Schiavo.
I understand why people are so charged up about Terri's quality of life and manner in which it ended. I don't fault anybody because of their strident beliefs. However, we might ask, what exactly are President's Bush's beliefs.
I don't suppose that there is any chance that President Bush wants to talk about Sun Hudson now. Lost in the media maelstrom about Terri Schiavo ws that two weeks ago a decision was made to terminate in life in Texas.
Sun Hudson was a 6-month-old boy in Texas who was snuffed last week under a law that was signed in 1999 by...guess which former governor of Texas. The boy was terminally ill, but his family wanted to keep him alive. However, the Texas law allows doctors (or the hospital bean counters) to make the life/death decisions based on the family's ABILITY TO PAY.
As I recall from President Bush's comments about the Terri Schiavo case, a life/death decision is one that should be left to the patient's famlly. And that we should "...err on the side of life."
Except when a sick baby might pose a fiscal inconvenience to a healthcare corporation and his mother does not have the means to issue a legal challenge.
Conservative, yet compassionate. GWB might like to hear from you on this.
Posted by scott at April 1, 2005 12:19 PM