Terri Schiavo and the separation of powers

Of course...they're in Florida.

crahsfrog responds to me:

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So under Texas law that Bush signed, Michael Schiavo is still in the right.

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they're in Florida.

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Now, crash, don't be disingenuous. The point is that Bush's conceptualization about who gets to decide what should happen to a person who doesn't have a living will is to first go to the spouse. That's what he signed into law. Doesn't really matter where he signed it into law. He signed it into law so he must have thought that a spouse's opinion about medical treatment carried more weight than a parent's. In fact, parents come third on the list.The law is similar in Florida: The spouse of someone trumps the parents when it comes to making decisions for someone who cannot speak for himself.That's also why people keep bringing up the "futile care" law that allows the hospital to stop treatment. If Bush truly thinks that we should "err on the side of life," then what on earth was he doing signing a law that allows people to withhold medical treatment? It doesn't matter if it was in another state. He signed it into law. He must believe in it else why would he have signed it?

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Rrhain
WWJD? JWRTFM!

I wasn't trying to be disingenuous, I was trying to be pedantic.But I see you've gone and returned me the favor.