Follow Up

This is a follow up to SoundBoyz previous post concerning the Terri Schiavo case. The following excerpts are from a story that was reported by The Associated Press. This is even more proof that Bush and Republicans in general are terrible hypocrites who have no idea how to run a country.

"Austin, Texas - The federal law President Bush signed to prolong Terri Schiavo’s life in Florida appears to conflict with a Texas law he signed as governor, attorneys familiar with the legislation said Monday.

"The 1999 Advance Directives Act in Texas allows for a patient’s surrogate to make end-of-life decisions and spells out how to proceed if a hospital or other health provider disagrees with a decision to maintain or halt life-sustaining treatment."

"Thomas Mayo, an associate law professor at Southern Methodist University who helped draft the Texas law, said that if the Schiavo case had happened in Texas, her husband would have been her surrogate decision-maker. Because both he and her doctors were in agreement, life support would have been discontinued."

"Bruce Howell, a private health law attorney in Dallas who was involved in updates to the state law in 2003, agreed with Mayo that Bush’s signing of the federal law appears to be inconsistent with his actions as governor."

So there you have it. Now the first questions that comes to my mind is, who is influencing Bush to make this decision? The question is obviously rhetorical, it is the people who butter his bread, the religious right. The precedents being set by this President are dangerous. This is another major issue in wich the government is trying to have more control over. But of course all the religious right cares is gay marriage and less gun control. "God bless America, and no place else"