Text 10511, 73 rader
Skriven 2005-03-28 23:16:46 av Gary Braswell (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 10414 av RICHARD JOHNSON (1:10/345)
Ärende: Sanctity of life
========================
While this is regarding an issue I have had my fill of, I have not heard of the
below either.

Does that make me a liar?

Liar is an intentional act. I have not known Ed to be a lair and in the years
he posts here, never seen it.

RICHARD JOHNSON -> GARY BRASWELL wrote:
 RJ> On 3/27/05 5:10 PM, GARY BRASWELL wrote to RICHARD JOHNSON:


 ->> How exactly is Ed a liar?

 RJ> Mr. Ed claims no knowledge of the following:

 RJ>  From the Seattle Times, 3/22/05:

 RJ> "In 1999, then-Gov. Bush signed the Advance Directives Act, which lets a
 RJ> patient's surrogate make life-ending decisions on his or her behalf. The
 RJ> measure also allows Texas hospitals to disconnect patients from
 RJ> life-sustaining
 RJ> systems if a physician, in consultation with a hospital bioethics
 RJ> committee,
 RJ> concludes that the patient's condition is hopeless.

 RJ> "Bioethicists familiar with the Texas law said yesterday that if the
 RJ> Schiavo
 RJ> case had occurred in Texas, her husband would be the legal
 RJ> decision-maker and,
 RJ> because he and her doctors agreed that she had no hope of recovery, her
 RJ> feeding
 RJ> tube would be disconnected.

 RJ> "'The Texas law signed in 1999 allowed next of kin to decide what the
 RJ> patient
 RJ> wanted, if competent,' said John Robertson, a University of Texas
 RJ> bioethicist..."

 RJ> and more recently in Houston:

 RJ> "...the plight of Baby Sun Hudson has gone largely unnoticed. The
 RJ> 5-month-old
 RJ> Texas boy was ordered removed from a ventilator over the objections of his
 RJ> mother, Wanda Hudson, and he died shortly after that. That was allowed to
 RJ> happen because Texas has a law which allows medical personnel to make
 RJ> the final
 RJ> call over life and death and the baby had a genetic disorder that
 RJ> prevented his
 RJ> lungs from growing..."

 RJ> Given that the law passed in 1999 was fairly devisive in Texas and was not
 RJ> passed on the QT, either Mr. Ed was in a coma or otherwise unconscious
 RJ> at the
 RJ> time or he is lying through his teeth.  I opt for the latter.

 RJ> Given the Baby Sun Hudson case, while unnoticed in the national press,
 RJ> has been
 RJ> in Texas news media, both print and electronic, the same conditions
 RJ> regarding
 RJ> Mr. Ed apply when he says he was not aware of the 1999 law signed by
 RJ> then-governor Bush.  Again, I opt for the latter, ie: Mr. Ed is a liar,
 RJ> and not
 RJ> a very good one at that.




 RJ> --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5a
 RJ>  * Origin: BBS Networks @ www.bbsnets.com 808-839-6036 (1:10/345)

--- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.
 * Origin:  (1:123/789.0)