Can anywhere be more backward and stupid than Texas?

[Shill Jackson]

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencen ... z2rNKt9hrN

A Texas judge has ordered that a brain-dead pregnant woman be removed from life support after her husband filed suit against a Fort Worth hospital for "cruel and obscene mutilation" of a dead body.

Marlise Munoz, 33, was 14 weeks pregnant when her husband, Erick Munoz, found her unconscious on the floor of their kitchen on Nov. 26, possibly due to a blood clot in one of her lungs.

Although doctors at the county-owned hospital later told the husband that his wife was brain dead and would never recover, the hospital chose to keep her body on life support against the family's wishes, citing a Texas law that prohibits hospitals from suspending "life-sustaining treatment" on patients who are pregnant.

[town bidness]

i always thought those 'rugged individualists' down there in texas was against big government all up in your business?

is there anything repubs are not hypocrites about?

[jordanzone]

according to a few articles, anywhere from 11-22 other states abide by this same law...

Texas is one of more than two dozen states that prohibit, with varying degrees of strictness, medical officials from cutting off life support to a pregnant patient.

[Shill Jackson]

according to a few articles, anywhere from 11-22 other states abide by this same law...

Texas is one of more than two dozen states that prohibit, with varying degrees of strictness, medical officials from cutting off life support to a pregnant patient.

why should the law being dictating medical policy?

[jordanzone]

according to a few articles, anywhere from 11-22 other states abide by this same law...

Texas is one of more than two dozen states that prohibit, with varying degrees of strictness, medical officials from cutting off life support to a pregnant patient.

why should the law being dictating medical policy?

oh, I wasn't so much arguing your point as much as I was defending my birthplace as the only place where this is happening...

..but, this issue also entails a pro-life/pro-choice argument...some will be conflicted by this no doubt...

[Da Stars.]

I Hope they pull the plug on me if I am legally brain dead. Oh wait they have to. I have a clause in my will for that. It is called right to die.

[ripper76]

I Hope they pull the plug on me if I am legally brain dead. Oh wait they have to. I have a clause in my will for that. It is called right to die.

Shouldn't they have already pulled the plug then?

[denali4eva]

I Hope they pull the plug on me if I am legally brain dead. Oh wait they have to. I have a clause in my will for that. It is called right to die.

I don't want you to die...

[Sudanese Sensation]

I Hope they pull the plug on me if I am legally brain dead. Oh wait they have to. I have a clause in my will for that. It is called right to die.

Shouldn't they have already pulled the plug then?

[denali4eva]

according to a few articles, anywhere from 11-22 other states abide by this same law...

Texas is one of more than two dozen states that prohibit, with varying degrees of strictness, medical officials from cutting off life support to a pregnant patient.

why should the law being dictating medical policy?

oh, I wasn't so much arguing your point as much as I was defending my birthplace as the only place where this is happening...

..but, this issue also entails a pro-life/pro-choice argument...some will be conflicted by this no doubt...

I didn't know you're a native Texan...

[jordanzone]

why should the law being dictating medical policy?

oh, I wasn't so much arguing your point as much as I was defending my birthplace as the only place where this is happening...

..but, this issue also entails a pro-life/pro-choice argument...some will be conflicted by this no doubt...

I didn't know you're a native Texan...

..I think you may have but forgot..not sure...when we had our military talks, born at Fort Hood Army Base...

[denali4eva]

oh, I wasn't so much arguing your point as much as I was defending my birthplace as the only place where this is happening...

..but, this issue also entails a pro-life/pro-choice argument...some will be conflicted by this no doubt...

I didn't know you're a native Texan...

..I think you may have but forgot..not sure...when we had our military talks, born at Fort Hood Army Base...

I remember now...I sometimes can't remember two days ago let alone any significant amount of time that has passed...lol

[dunkan5rings]

i always thought those 'rugged individualists' down there in texas was against big government all up in your business?

is there anything repubs are not hypocrites about?

government be all up in yo bidness

[jordanzone]

I didn't know you're a native Texan...

..I think you may have but forgot..not sure...when we had our military talks, born at Fort Hood Army Base...

I remember now...I sometimes can't remember two days ago let alone any significant amount of time that has passed...lol

I know that feeling..haha...but, no one will hold it against you(not that you give a crap) about not remembering message board chat when we all have real life shit to maintain...