Texas One Screwed Up Country

Texas hospital forbids husband of brain-dead, pregnant wife to remove her from life support
By Scott Kaufman | The Raw Story

"Under Texas law, “[a] person may not withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment under this subchapter from a pregnant patient.” Crucially for this case, the law does not specify that the fetus be viable, only that the woman carrying her be pregnant."To summarize- Here is a woman who was only 14 weeks into her pregnancy and died. So for the next 22 weeks she will be nothing more then a human baby vessel who's muscles will deteriorate into jelly. We don't know how long the baby went without oxygen and may not even be viable. The hospital, the husband and the woman herself have expressed a desire to pull the plug on this and Texas lawmakers forbid the wishes of all three to be carried out. The article goes on to point out "even if a pregnant woman has a DNR or a living will, the law supersedes that.”

Let me also mention something not brought up in the article. In 2010 "the average cost per patient was more than $300,000 for the year of care.". Is Texas going to pay for that.. HELL NO!

I titled this as Texas being one screwed up country because Texas is so foreign to the American principles that I think of them as another nation unto themselves. Here we have a state that claims to hate government regulation. Yet imposes more regulations then Washington, D.C. would ever dream of on this family.

A state that refuses to pay for birth control or anything that even smells like it. Yet insists (by law) people be forced pay and give birth to them even if a child should be born into this world entirely dependant even if the father exhausted all his resources to pay for his/her upbringing. What happens if this father passes away in the future? You think Texas will take responsibility in what's best for the child? No. They are more likely to warehouse it for the rest of it's life in some sort of human warehouse (out of sight).

Texas has to be one of the most two faced governments that exist in the world. On one hand they force people to give birth even as they complain about welfare dependant parents. Many of which would use birth control if given to them for low or no costs. Instead the very people they moan about are encouraged to give birth creating an even greater population of dependency. Who at the end of the day are left twisting in the wind to fend for themselves.

Even an idiot knows birth control pills are a lot cheaper then raising a kid which cost $241,080 until they are 18 (w/o college) even when they are 100% healthy. Birth control cost vary from $9 to $63 depending where one lives. A 1/4 of a million dollars can pay for a hellva' lot of unwanted pregnancies. How stupid are they?

As far as I'm concerned if Texas doesn't secede, we should throw their asses out of the U.S.

If Texas doesn't like Washington and doesn't want to play ball, shut up and secede already. Let them defend their own border, cut all ties to funding from Washington, D.C., work out a trade deal and let all the people who think like them move there. They'd being doing the rest of us a favor.

As you can see, I'm no fan of Texas!

After all it's what they want(ed) for years.

The "Lone Star" state: "This flag was introduced to the Congress of the Republic of Texas on December 28, 1838, by Senator William H. Wharton. It was adopted on January 25, 1839 as the final national flag of the Republic of Texas"


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So Go Already
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