http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3079622More on Bush & Right To Life folks that passed Texas Law
March 10, 2005, 10:49PM
Right to Life backed law that irks wife
By RICK CASEY
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle
<snip>Judge Tony Lindsay expressed "most sincere sadness and apologies," but said the law required Nikolouzos show a reasonable expectation of finding an alternative facility before Lindsay could order the hospital to continue treatment it did not feel was advisable.
It's the same law under which another judge denied Wanda Hudson's request to force Texas Children's Hospital to maintain Sun Hudson on life support.
The law was passed in 1999 and amended two years ago. Acting as a negotiator for Houston-based Texas Right to Life, Burke Balch flew in from Washington "20 to 25 times" to sit at a table with represent-
atives of the Texas Hospital Association and other parties to negotiate the law and its amendment.
Balch is director of National Right to Life's Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics.Right to Life was at the table partly because then-Gov. George W. Bush had vetoed a similar bill two years earlier (1997) at the request of some members of the religious right, according to its sponsor, then-Sen. Mike Moncrief, now mayor of Fort Worth.<snip>
After new negotiations, the bill went before a Senate committee without opposition. Balch testified in favor, as did representatives of the Baylor Health Care System and the Texas Conference of Catholic Health Facilities.<snip>
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