10.22.2003

I think we can safely say that today's Hot Seat In Hell Award goes to Gov. John Ellis Bush and the entire Florida legistature, for hustling through a bill to restore the feeding tube of Terry Schiavo, the woman in a persistent vegetative state who was removed from this support last week. That's right folks -- as a political response to this contentious case, the state government created a law narrowly applicable to this case (it is limited to patients with no living will, in a persistent vegetative state, where nutrition and hydration tubes are removed and a family member has challenged the removal) essentially overruling a court order to allow the patient's guardian to carry out the patient's wishes, as determined by the court. To me, this is a constitutional and moral outrage without equal, even as the federal government is poised to pass another unconstitutional haymaker of a law on "partial birth abortion" today. i'm moving to Saturn.

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