Radical Georgia Moderate

December 29, 2005

Chip Rogers’ feeding tube bill DBA (dead before arrival)

It’s already been covered elsewhere, but state Sen. Chip Rogers has withdrawn his pre-filed “can’t remove feeding tubes” bill. I think it would have been awesome if the Legislature had tried to pass that dog. Roundabout 80 percent of the country (my recollection, which is not likely 100 percent accurate, but not far off either) thought the national Republican leadership’s reaction was crazy and stupid in the Terry Schiavo case. Remember Senator Bill Frist declaring her “not a vegetable” after watching a tape? Anybody care to guess how many state House seats the GOP would have lost if they’d dabbled with that degree of wingnuttery in an election year?

Filed at 1:37 pm

2 Responses to “Chip Rogers’ feeding tube bill DBA (dead before arrival)”

Rob wrote:

Such a bill would kill people! Who would be willing to accept a feeding tube if they could never get rid of it if it was a mistake?

That’s an idiot bill! Good thing it’s dead.

Thursday, 12.29.2005 at 6:33 pm
Chris wrote:

I’m not so sure Georgians would be as against this stuff as the rest of the nation. We are one of George W Bush’s biggest states after all.

I actually think a statute that says “If you don’t have a will you will be ____” is a good idea. I don’t care if it says kept alive in the blank or removed from life support. But I think one should be the default and if people feel the other way they should get a will. If they don’t get a will and there is a dispute between competing loved ones, one of them can say “well the law said X and so and so never did anything otherwise so he/she must have felt X was ok.”

we have so many other assumptions in the law, why not here?

Saturday, 12.31.2005 at 3:56 am