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Quality Control at CBSNews.com
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Originally posted by bilmore
You need to draw a huge distinction between the system - i.e., freedom, democracy, our country, and all that - and The Procedure - a bunch of rule oriented people congratulating themselves who, in refusing to allow the parents of a woman to provide care for her and insisting that "the right person" has said she should die, have checked off the appropriate boxes on a checklist and so are blameless.
I do.
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These same parents admitted that they would have amputated all of her limbs if she had developed gangrine stemming out of diabetes and performed open heart surgery on her if she developed heart disease. These same parents admitted that they would have kept her on a feeding tube even if she clearly and unambiguously had let the world know that is not what she wanted.
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