LOW CLASS AND TRASHY
Parents and husband plead for help as Senate
passes bill to restore woman's feeding tube

From the AP via the Houston Chronicle:

As protesters and TV satellite trucks gathered outside the hospice, the Senate passed a bill that could prolong Schiavo's life while a federal court considers her case. House Republicans scrambled to bring enough lawmakers back to the Capitol for an emergency vote early Monday after Democrats objected to a vote by a small handful of lawmakers.

President Bush was cutting short a stay at his Texas ranch and returning to the White House to sign it. An attorney for Schiavo's parents filed a request for an emergency injunction with a federal appellate court to have the tube reinserted once the bill is passed. He also planned to make a similar request with the federal district court in Tampa.

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Clearly, this is bigtime grandstanding on the part of the GOP. Tom DeLay is thanking his lucky stars that this opportunity has come along to divert attention from all his ethics scandals, and pro-lifers have made this poor Schiavo woman their poster child--I really wonder if any of these people actually give a shit about her or her husband. All that aside, this reeks of hypocricy: the pro-state's rights Republicans seem to have abandoned that point of view completely, as Rob Salkowitz over at Emphasis Added has observed. Furthermore, it needs to be pointed out that President Bush, as governor of Texas, signed a bill allowing hospitals to cut off life support if the patient can no longer pay!!!! This is sick, sick, sick, and trashy. I really need to put together a living will, if only so that I'm not turned into a cause celeb one day.

Thanks to Eschaton for that last link.

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