Vast Majority of Americans Feel Republican Congress Acted Inappropriately in the Schiavo Matter

Seventy percent deemed the congressional intervention inappropriate, while 67 percent said they believe lawmakers became involved in the Schiavo case for political advantage rather than the principles involved.
(Reuters)

Meanwhile, a child was taken off of life support in a Houston hospital under a law signed by then-Governor George W. Bush that allows hospitals to remove life-sustaining apparatus if the family is unable to pay its bills--even if the family objects to such removal.

White House spokesman Scott McClelland said that the issue was a "gray area" in the law. However, once again, this was not true. The law reads as follows:

If the patient or the person responsible for the health care decisions of the patient is requesting life-sustaining treatment that the attending physician has decided and the review process has affirmed is inappropriate treatment, the patient shall be given available life-sustaining treatment pending transfer under Subsection (d). The patient is responsible for any costs incurred in transferring the patient to another facility. The physician and the health care facility are not obligated to provide life-sustaining treatment after the 10th day after the written decision required under Subsection (b) is provided to the patient or the person responsible for the health care decisions of the patient …