From the Playboy Forum; Newsfront

September 2005 issue

HOUSTON- About the same time religious conservatives were protesting court decisions that allowed Terri Schiavo's husband to end her life, two city hospitals applied a 1999 Texas law that allows them to stop treatment 10 days after notifying the family after their intent. One infant with advanced leukemia died five days before she was to stop receiving care, and the family of a 68 year-old man in a vegetative state found a nursing home that would accept him. A second infant, who suffered from a fatal form of dwarfism, died after officials at Texas Children's Hospital pulled the plug against the wishes of his parents. No congressional subpoenas arrived, no fundamentalists appeared on TV to defend the culture of life, and no protesters chanted outside - perhaps because the law had been signed by then governor George W. Bush.

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