WASHINGTON – House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) today condemned the removal of Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube and pledged to continue working for a legal or legislative means to save her life.
“Right now, murder is being committed against a defenseless American citizen in Florida,” DeLay said. “Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube should be immediately replaced, and Congress will continue working to explore ways to save her.
“Mrs. Schiavo’s life is not slipping away – it is being violently wrenched from her body in an act of medical terrorism,” DeLay said. “Mr. Schiavo’s attorney’s characterization of the premeditated starvation and dehydration of a helpless woman as ‘her dying process’ is as disturbing as it is unacceptable. What is happening to her is not compassion – it is homicide. She doesn’t need to die, and as long as Terri Schiavo can breathe and her supporters can pray, we will not rest.”