More on Emilio
I posted about baby Emilio Gonzales on Wednesday, but here's a petition to sign for him. It does appear that public attention and involvement has had an effect so far.
Emilio has not gotten much national mainstream media attention so far, but for further info on the Texas futile care law, which was signed into law by then-Governor George W. Bush, you can check out the ever-dubious Wiki as a starting point. It lists several cases that have come under the Texas law since it was signed: Sun Hudson, Tirhas Habtegiris, Andrea Clark, and Baby Emilio.
Sun was the infant of a mentally ill woman and the first American child to be refused medical care against his parent's wishes. Habtegiris was an African immigrant woman who couldn't pay her medical bills, and Clark was a 54-year-old heart patient.
It's fairly clear that this law is principally applied to people without resources, since there have been no cases of people dying under this law who were, for example, adult white males or terminally ill people who can better pay their bills or access adequate insurance. This is euthanasia for the poor.
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The Slate article's author said:
A policy of helping everyone who needs a ventilator is a policy of spending less to help the same class of people in other ways.
Funny how some insist on limiting the resources for the poor. But the rich will still get their tax cuts.
Sorry, I don't mean to be off-topic. The fact that euthanasia is considered acceptable for people with "two strikes" (disability and poverty) is so stomach-turning that I don't know what else to say.
I don't think it's off-topic, I think it's key to the problem.
"The fact that euthanasia is considered acceptable for people with "two strikes" (disability and poverty) is so stomach-turning that I don't know what else to say."
Yes. And there's race in this too.
Yes. And there's race in this too.
Exactly.
only came here via bint alshamsa, and gee, i'm beyond words. especially re: the slate article. who the f**k ever said the nazis lost? it's really coming back plain into the open, no structural or whatever disguises anymore:
there are lifes "worthy" and there are others "unworthy".
and btw. not only in texas. don't know if you heard about the Mental Incapacity Bill in the uk, myself only did cause i did this piece about nabil shaban on my own blog.
and no surprise it doesn't make the news. unfortunatly am too busy for doing so myself, but since you seem keeping a tab, have you considered nominating this / these cases to projectcensored.org ?
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