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Texas bush law conflicts with latest stand { March 22 2005 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0503220227mar22,1,1921181.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0503220227mar22,1,1921181.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed THE TERRI SCHIAVO CASE Texas law that Bush signed conflicts with his latest stand By Kelley Shannon Associated Press Published March 22, 2005 AUSTIN, Texas -- The federal law President Bush signed to prolong Terri Schiavo's life in Florida appears to conflict with a Texas law he signed as governor, attorneys familiar with the legislation said Monday. The 1999 Advance Directives Act in Texas allows for a patient's surrogate to make end-of-life decisions, and it spells out how to proceed if a hospital or other health provider disagrees with a decision to maintain or halt life-sustaining treatment. If a doctor refuses to honor a decision, the case goes before a medical committee. If the committee agrees with the doctor, the guardian or surrogate has 10 days to agree or seek treatment elsewhere. Thomas Mayo, an associate law professor at Southern Methodist University who helped draft the Texas law, said that if the Schiavo case had happened in Texas, her husband would have been her surrogate decision-maker. Because both he and her doctors were in agreement, life support would have been discontinued. The Texas law does not include a provision for dealing with conflicts among family members, although in practice hospital ethics committees would try to resolve such disputes, he said. The Texas law, Mayo said, tends to keep such cases out of court, allowing life-support decisions to be made privately. Bruce Howell, an attorney in Dallas who was involved in updates to the state law in 2003, agreed with Mayo that Bush's signing of the federal law appears to be inconsistent with his actions as governor. "I would hope that this case does not result in federal law overriding what I think was carefully and incredibly well intentionally thought out," he said.

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