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Thursday, December 15, 2005

Where are the Christofascists now?
Posted by Jill | 7:52 AM

Remember the Terri Schiavo circus? Remember how she became the patron saint of so-called pro-life nutjobs?

Funny....they were nowhere to be found when a CONSCIOUS woman had the plug pulled:

Tirhas Habtegiris was an East African immigrant and only 27 when she died Monday afternoon.

She'd been on a respirator at Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano for 25 days.

"They handed me this letter on December 1st. and they said, we're going to give you 10 days so on the 11th day, we're going to pull it out," said her brother Daniel Salvi.

Salvi was stunned to get this hand-delivered notice invoking a complicated and rarely used Texas law where a doctor is "not obligated to continue" medical treatment "medically inappropriate" when care is not beneficial.

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Even though her body was being ravaged by cancer, this family says Tirhas still responded and was conscious. She was waiting one person.

"She wanted to get her mom over here or to get to her mom so she could die in her mom's arms," says her cousin Meri Tesfay.

Ten days was not enough time, they say, to get a mother from Africa to America.

The family and hospital desperately tried to get Tirhas moved to a nursing home but they say no one would take her.

"A fund issue is what I understand. Because she is not insured and that was the major reason the way I understood it," Salvi said.


Aside from the question of whether life should be apportioned based on ability to pay, no one in this case was asking that this woman be kept on respirator forever; just long enough for her mother to come to this country. That hardly seems unreasonable.

Does the fact that this woman, like the infant Sun Hudson, also from Texas, wasn't white have anything to do with it?
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