AP: Report: DeLay Agreed With Withholding Special Treatment

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Is this the only other Newsmedia that has posted this story besides the LATimes?

Report: DeLay Agreed With Withholding Special Treatment for Injured Father
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who has helped lead a congressional effort to keep Terri Schiavo alive, joined members of his own family nearly 17 years ago in allowing doctors not to take extraordinary measures to extend his father's life, a newspaper reported Sunday.

DeLay had just been re-elected to his third term in Congress in 1988 when his father, Charles DeLay, was severely injured in an accident. As the elder DeLay's vital organs began failing, the family chose not to connect him to a dialysis machine or take other measures to prolong his life, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday, citing court documents, medical records and interviews with family members.

"There was no point to even really talking about it," Maxine DeLay, the congressman's 81-year-old mother, told the Times. "Tom knew, we all knew, his father wouldn't have wanted to live that way." "Tom went along" with the family's decision, she said. She called comparisons between her husband's case and that of Schiavo "interesting" but said she agrees with her son that Schiavo might have a chance of recovering if her feeding tube were reinserted.

DeLay helped push through Congress a special law allowing Terri Schiavo's parents to ask federal courts to order their brain-damaged daughter's feeding tube reinserted after state courts allowed it to be removed. However, after hearing their pleas, federal judges refused to intervene. The Texas Republican also accused Schiavo's husband and the courts of "an act of barbarism" against Schiavo, who doctors say is in a persistent vegetative state.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB02JH1U6E.html

[Erika]

1. Tom's father did not want to be a vegetable?

and Tom agreed not to force his life to take that path and refused life sustaining methods.

I guess that must have been before Tom got religion and insight that all should be forced to live regardless of quality of life.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Google News

Google news for DeLay Agreed With Withholding Special Treatment for Injured Father.

There are 208 hits as I post this.

Edited to add, from NewsMax:

L.A. Times Smears Tom DeLay on Father's Death

By printing a true story? Whatever....

[Erika]

3. Republicans always pose as victims of liberals

The poor little things. Tom chose not to keep his father alive because of the poor quality of life the father would have. But he's willing to force Terri to be kept alive? And it's all the liberals fault?

[elehhhhna]

4. Tom doesn't stand to inherit from Terri. Big difference.

[NVMojo]

5. we get abc on our local news station here and this story has been

played every hour on the hour all day!!! For Easter, no less!! Poetic justice!