Government Death Care

[Memekiller]

Amazing article about how under Bush's Texas law, doctors can kill your lovd ones without your consent or knowledge, and my experiences with a similar Terri Schiavo situation.

I’m pro-choice, but I couldn’t, in good conscience, support a law that forced a mother to have an abortion to save her life. I couldn’t force a Christian Scientist to get medical treatment (for their children – a more difficult call). The point is, these are matters of the soul, and as such belong to the most personal, religious beliefs a person can have. If we are to save money, why not save it by allowing those like Michael to make the decision without the Federal government staging a media event on the outside lawn?



In fact, Bush is being consistent here, not in matters of life, but matters of power: the decision of when life ends should be left up to hospital bureaucracies and the government, based on dollars and cents rather than God and family. All they need to know is the hospital pulled the plug, and they assume the family will not pay, and the hospital, given total discretion, will make the best moral decision. This is the rationale used for an imperial Presidency as well – our leader needs no checks, no balances, no accountability, only the freedom to decide what he feels is best. Selfishness is not possible. They are good. The victims of those decisions deserve it.