According to the snivelling CNN, the President of the United States said this Monday
In cases like this one, where there are serious questions and substantial doubts, our society, our laws and our courts should have a presumption in favor of life[.]
According to the Texas State Legislature's own records of their tragicomic efforts at legalism, this is the law GW Bush signed in 1999
§ 166.039 Subsection (f)
The fact that an adult qualified patient has not executed or issued a directive does not create a presumption that the patient does not want a treatment decision to be made to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment.
In this context, a "directive" is a (possibly unnotarized) document which states the patient's preferences on the question "to pull, or not to pull" the plug.
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