Dear ActForChange member,

There are many lessons to learn from the unprecedented intervention by Congress (as led by Rep. Tom DeLay) into the tragic situation of Terri Schiavo.
The first is that the current Congress will intervene in the most private of family matters if it sees political advantage in doing so.
As a result, the only way to ensure that your own views are respected in similar settings is to have an advanced healthcare directive or living will. Working Assets does not provide legal advice. However, many have found helpful the information on these subjects provided byThe American Bar Association and the Living Will Registry.
The second lesson is that there is no limit to the sheer audacity and hypocrisy of Rep. DeLay and his followers in this unprecedented intervention, only days after voting to slash billions of dollars from the health program which provides for millions of Americans and which itself saves thousands of lives.
We urge you to demand that your representative save lives by restoring cuts to the critical Medicaid program.