Salon.com Politics: "As Republicans plotted congressional intervention last week to extend the life of Terri Schiavo, a Texas woman named Wanda Hudson watched her six-month-old baby die in her arms after doctors removed the breathing tube that kept him alive. Hudson didn't want the tube removed, but the baby's doctors decided for her. A judge signed off on the decision under the Texas futile care law -- a provision first signed into law in 1999 by then-Gov. George W. Bush. Under the 1999 law, doctors in Texas can, with the support of a hospital ethics committee, overrule the wishes of family members and terminate life-support measures if they believe further care would be futile"
Posted by geoff2 at March 21, 2005 02:41 PMGeoff A. "The right to Life"
This reader is being informed by your posted
internet "Blog" information statement:
Of the Texas " Futile Care Law " or as
connected by links to the Directive Below.
This reader has with ,limitted ability, viewed
and attempted to understand this Act.
The attempt of understanding is to acquire a
general knowledge of what is being written.
Without the reference notes as to what the
definative terms in the act are; this reader has only a simple understanding of what is being statted or convayed.
166.001. SHORT TITLE. This chapter may be cited as
the Advance Directives Act.
(This definition seems to be a statement as the same that is in the current news of Terri Schiavo)
(2) "Artificial nutrition and hydration" means the
provision of nutrients or fluids by a tube inserted in a vein, under
the skin in the subcutaneous tissues, or in the stomach
(gastrointestinal tract).
** This reader is at a disadvantage as to the meaning of this included statement in the act. **
based on
reasonable medical judgment
**Taken from this Act is the following statement;
which would support current events in the
Terri Schiavo news story **
When an attending physician refuses to comply with an advance
directive or other request for life-sustaining treatment because of
the physician's judgment that the treatment would be inappropriate,
the case will be reviewed by an ethics or medical committee.
Life-sustaining treatment will be provided through the review
** The words as expressed by this reader are a
opinion ; without judgement or value **
This reader thanks you for your example of a
decision made by a doctor represented in your quoting a news story. This reader takes as value
your thoughts on " The right to life is complex"
respectfully Gerwing Ralph T. BBY/VANCOUVER.bc.ca