A bill aimed at prolonging the severely brain-damaged woman's life was delayed in Washington when House Democrats blocked a voice vote, forcing Republicans to scramble on Palm Sunday for a quorum of 218 members. A roll call vote could be held as early as 12:01 a.m. Monday, House leaders said.
HOLD ON A MINUTE!!!! Where is the National Organization for Women? Where is the ACLU? A guy wants to off his wife and the feminists stay silent? It is wrong to parade murderous terrorists in the nude and wrong to deprive them of food, but it is OK to starve and dehydrate a woman, an American woman, to death?
"Everyone recognizes that time is important here. This is about defending life," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said in Texas, where the president planned an early return to Washington to be able to sign the bill as soon as possible.
Glad someone gets it. It would be different if there were evidence of an agreement between the husband and wife about life support, but there is not. In situations like this, I err on the side of life everytime.
However, I don't think this has so much to do with right to die as with abortion. If we defend the life of someone who cannot defend their own, respecting the gft of life, it calls the whole notion of abortion on demand further into question.
Mary Schindler pleaded for parents nationwide to call their congressional representatives and pressure them to vote for a bill to prolong her daughter's life.
"There are some congressmen that are trying to stop this bill," she said outside her daughter's hospice. "Please don't use my daughter's suffering for your own personal agenda."
Amen, Mrs. Schindler, amen...sadly for the Left, even someone's life is not beyond politicizing....
