Monday, March 21, 2005

What Would Congress Do ...

if confessed child murderer John Evander Couey had a massive stroke, lapsed into a vegetative state, and his family wanted to pull out his feeding tube?

Congress has already decided that it is comfortable making life-and-death choices for individuals and families. It's already concluded it doesn't require knowledge of such situations beyond what it sees on the news. And the Terry Schiavo memo from the GOP leadership outlined the potential political gain in such tragedies.

What would congress do? Probably pass a bill to keep Couey alive in the hope he'd recover enough to be executed.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

They would not just pass a bill - they would halt all action on any other meaningful national agenda items in order to tangle themselves in the case, just as they did in the Schiavo case.