March 9, 2015      12:25 PM
End-of-life talks stalled as Texas Right to Life will not come to the table
In letter, the group's attorney claims TEC could compel donor list release, other groups and their attorneys disagree
The
thorny issue of how to reform Texas’ laws on end-of-life health care is front
and center for prominent pro-life groups at the Texas Capitol. But, one
of those groups is skipping out on negotiations about crafting legislation and in
doing so the group’s lawyer is blaming the Texas Ethics Commission for rules
aimed at transparency in elections.
Texas Right to Life is once again at odds with Texas Coalition for Life
and Texas
Alliance for Life, with the latter two of the three groups in agreement
that there is no TEC rule standing in the way of productive talks on how to reform
the Advance
Directives Act.
Former
Sen. Bob Deuell, R-Greenville, unsuccessfully
pushed changes in 2013 that would have given patients’ families greater
protections while providing clarity for doctors in situations when physicians
and families do not agree about how to deal with a terminal illness.
By Scott Braddock
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