At lunch yesterday we were discussing Terri Schiavo in our usual fashion, everyone talking at the same time. We were surprised that the ACLU hadn’t jumped in the fight yet, and lo and behold, here they are.
This is disturbing:
“We are afraid of lawyers all the time,” said Dr. Lofty L. Basta, a retired Clearwater cardiologist and founder of Project Grace, a non-profit group devoted to educating people about end-of-life planning. “We practice defensive medicine. We do things that we know are wrong to protect our behinds. So this ruling from the legislators makes us very leery to carry out any order for dying patients.”
Not So Fast 