This is reasonable legislation. Food and water are basic care ? not medicine?. To withdraw this basic human need when the purpose is to cause death without the express will of the patient is simply inhumane.

We need food, we need water, we need medicine.

[What these refugees of the hurricane need now, she says, is basic services – food, water, safety and medicine. They also need validation.] They need people to believe what has happened to them, to listen to them. There's almost a denial that this horrible devastation has happened to these people, ... It's important for the rest of us to acknowledge what has happened.

[What these refugees of the hurricane need now, she says, is basic services – food, water, safety and medicine. They also need validation.] They need people to believe what has happened to them, to listen to them. There's almost a denial that this horrible devastation has happened to these people, ... It's important for the rest of us to acknowledge what has happened.

We're authorized by law to go in and provide food and water, ... Some people are getting a bit liberal with the spray paint, but we need to know if we have to go back in to leave more food.

It is striking how many days people went without medicine, food and water without help from any agency of government or volunteer group. Many of those who did not evacuate were in poor health and circumstances to begin with and many said they were physically unable to leave.