Send Frist a video immediately.

I'm non-partisan and pro-life. I said a prayer for her and for her family. I don't really have anything political to write about this.

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"I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased- short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed." (Max Beerbohm)

First of all, we have no way of hearing the other side of the story since the hospital would have to violate patient privacy laws. This alone makes it quite a bit different from the Schiavo case.

Second, if she is truly cognizant, the simple answer is to allow her to wake up enough to ask her what she wants. Withholding pain meds won't kill her, and it may be what is needed to get an accurate prognosis. Perhaps her family might make a different decision with all the facts.

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"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves." ~Ronald Reagan

This isn't a case of two families fighting a legal battle. This is a case where the hospital and doctors have said there is no hope and no use in keeping this woman alive. Doctors and hospitals make these kinds of decision every day.

I think for the most part, politicians and gov't should stay out of it. The only reason the Shiavo case became newsworthy was because it was court case involving two families who hated each other....and people chose sides. I think it was a mistake for the "right to life" people to involve themselves in it.
And for those Congressmen who did as well.

They have much more important things to deal with. Things they COULD fix, but choose NOT to because they are afraid it will mean they won't be re-elected. Most of them fear losing their jobs more than they have a desire to fix the problems they should be addressing. And that includes people on both sides of the aisle.

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Clintonite after Clintonite. My question is, "So when does this so-called CHANGE start?"

I'm a pro-life, churchgoing Baptist, yet I supported Michael Schiavo's decision to remove his wife's feeding tube. Why? Because I believe in a life after death, one that cannot be reached until the soul leaves the body. Therefore, I asked myself, why would I want to keep her immortal soul trapped in her useless husk of a mortal body? I believe that Terry Schiavo is much happier now than she was for the twenty years she was kept on life support.

However, this woman remains cognizant, at least according to her family, and thus this kind of literally life-and-death decision cannot be made for her. If she truly has her mental functions, she should be woken up and asked what to do.

This seems like a pretty easy answer to me.

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Men of England, heirs of Glory,
Heroes of unwritten story,
Nurslings of one mighty Mother,
Hopes of her, and one another;

Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.

- Percy Shelley, "The Masque of Anarchy"

I don't understand how anyone can be pro-life and be against national healthcare. Do you really think this woman's life is only valuable enough to save because she has insurance? I guess God gave her medical insurance because he doesn't want her to die, but he wants us to kill a person in the same situation who doesn't have insurance? Perhaps god thinks it's OK for us to let anyone without medical insurance die, even if we know we could save their life? Do you really believe he only made medicine for some people and not others?
People die needlessly every day because they can't afford medical care for treatable illnesses, and you're worried how long they keep some vegetable, who has no chance of recovery, but has medical insurance, alive?
What is wrong with you people?

This is BS. A doctor or hospital that pulled the plug in such circumstances would be tried for murder.

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