T.S. Revisited

Thanks to Dave for passing along this article in Newsweek; I think it is worth noting.

It is very interesting that as a governor, Bush signed into Texas law the ability for hospitals to make life-and-death decisions over the objections of parents -- and that this law was used to stop care for a 6-month-old infant. Nobody interceded on the mother's behalf; noreligious groups kicked up a fuss.

Of course, the key words in that story may be 'low-income'.

It also notes that Bush spent far less time reviewing capital punishment cases than any other governor, while his state presided over more executions during his tenure than all other states combined. He said that he relied on the courts to sort out the complexities of life-and-death decisions. Fascinating.

In any case, now that the most key event has transpired, we can only hope that those public figures who turned what was a private family, court-resolved matter into a spectacle thanks to reactionary, borderline hypocritical political posturing will have learned a valuable lesson from all this. May T.S. rest in peace, at last.

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