Futile Care Law Bush signed prompts cries of hypocrisy

KRT Wire | 03/21/2005 | Law Bush signed prompts cries of hypocrisy: "While Congress and the White House were considering legislation recently in the Schiavo case, Bush's Texas law faced its first high-profile test. With the permission of a judge, a Houston hospital disconnected a critically ill infant from his breathing tube last week against his mother's wishes after doctors determined that continuing life support would be futile.

'The mother down in Texas must be reading the Schiavo case and scratching her head,' said Dr. Howard Brody, the director of Michigan State University's Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences. 'This does appear to be a contradiction.'"