The brother of Terri Schiavo will be at the State Capitol this week to testify on proposed changes to Louisiana's "living will" law, a state senator said.
Sen. James David Cain, R-Dry Creek, is proposing a law to require that patients can't be denied food and water unless they previously requested "to be starved to death," Cain said.
The late Terri Schiavo was at the center of a recent nationally watched legal fight over whether to turn off the Florida woman's feeding tube after she spent years in a coma.
Her brother, Bobby Schindler, will testify on Cain's bill Tuesday in the Senate Judiciary "A" Committee meeting set for 9 a.m. in the Senate's big briefing room, Cain said.
The Schindler family opposed turning off the feeding tube, but Terri Schiavo's husband won a legal battle to do so.
"We have to determine that people actually want to be starved to death before we pull the plug," Cain said in a statement explaining the reason for his bill.
The Louisiana Senate last week bestowed another honor on the late Sen. John Hainkel Jr., a veteran legislator who died just before the legislative session's start.
Senators voted to rename the Senate Briefing Room, its newest and one of its larger committee rooms, in Hainkel's honor.
A move is also afoot to rename the New Orleans Home and Rehabilitation Center after Hainkel, a former president of the Senate and speaker of the House of Representatives.
The state-operated nursing home is scheduled for closure as a part of Gov. Kathleen Blanco's budget cuts, but area residents are promising a fight to keep it open.
FV SAYS: This article emailed to me from who knows what publication has an error. Terri was not in a coma.
Further, if good people knew the truth about what was involved in starving and dehydration, they would NEVER choose to do this to their own body or to their loved ones.
An excellent editorial:
Protecting the lives of others is fundamental to civilization (Terri Schiavo)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1399343/posts
The political left has claimed to champion the rights of the disabled and opposes capital punishment for criminals. However, these same liberals pushed for the expeditious death of Terri Schiavo and few liberals rose up to oppose her execution. This should have a very chilling effect on the disabled and all of us.
Killing Terri added power to liberal tyranny. The socialist elite, including judges, will increasingly determine who will be born, live, and die. If they succeed, we will enter a very frightening and dreary new world.
New from The Empire Journal
License of Schiavo Doctor Suspended
http://www.theempirejournal.com/5090502_license_of_schiavo_docto.htm
Even if someone were to say they want to be starved, it wouldn't
be right to do so.