To the editor:

Where was Tom DeLay last week when Texas Children’s Hospital received permission to remove life support from the baby in Texas? After no hospital was found to accept the baby, they went to court to get permission to remove life support from the baby. His mother begged the court and hospital to let her baby live. She said her baby responded to her with smiles and smacked its lips and moved.

Why didn’t Tom DeLay and his minions in the Congress intervene on behalf of the baby as they tried to do in the other life-support case? I might also ask where were the protesters supporting the mother of the baby in Texas? Isn’t it strange that one person was given several years of care and one was denied even one year more of care?

I think it’s odd that a state represented by such a strong believer in maintaining life support would have a law that allows hospitals to request a patient be removed from life support. A cynic might say that profit wins in the end.

Larry M. Brizendine,

Lawrence