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Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida, acting under a new law written for the occasion, intervened to keep a brain-damaged woman on her feeding tube.(The Week)(Brief Article)
* Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida, acting under a new law written for the occasion, intervened to keep a brain-damaged woman on her feeding tube. Her husband, who is engaged to another woman and has had children with her, wants her to be dehydrated to death. He has gone to court, with the aid of the ACLU, to challenge the law that Bush applied. The media, rather grotesquely, are describing the controversy as a "right to die" case. Given the uncertainty about what the woman would have wanted--her parents insist that she would have wanted to stay alive, and that she could still have a partial recovery if given the proper treatment--the right the ACLU is asserting is closer to a right to kill. The ...
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