![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Taken from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sparow77
Dec. 22nd, 2005 10:45 pmhttp://dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/12/14/151930/63
No one here can forget the spectacle made over the death of Terri Schiavo, whose brain had died long, long ago. But in Texas, the law George W. Bush signed as governor allows doctors to inform the family that further treatment is hopeless (and costly) and Pull the Plug. Literally.
In the latest case to escape the Culture of Life warriors, Tirhas Habtegiris, a young woman and legal immigrant from Africa, was CONSCIOUS and responsive when removed from a respirator and allowed to die.
I think this is probably the most sickening thing I've read in a long while.
Edit to include actual non-blog news entry, thanks tovgnwtch: http://cbs11tv.com/topstories/local_story_348124802.html
No one here can forget the spectacle made over the death of Terri Schiavo, whose brain had died long, long ago. But in Texas, the law George W. Bush signed as governor allows doctors to inform the family that further treatment is hopeless (and costly) and Pull the Plug. Literally.
In the latest case to escape the Culture of Life warriors, Tirhas Habtegiris, a young woman and legal immigrant from Africa, was CONSCIOUS and responsive when removed from a respirator and allowed to die.
I think this is probably the most sickening thing I've read in a long while.
Edit to include actual non-blog news entry, thanks to
vgnwtch: http://cbs11tv.com/topstories/local_story_348124802.html