UPDATE -- 7:15 PM Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones has died. May she spend all eternity in the presence of the Almighty, and may her family and all those who loved her be comforted in this time of loss.

This news story is quite sad -- though I am glad to find that reports of her death are somewhat exaggerated.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress, had a brain hemorrhage and was in critical condition with limited brain function, a doctor said Wednesday.

Tubbs Jones, 58, suffered the hemorrhage while driving her car in Cleveland Heights on Tuesday, said Dr. Gus Kious, president of Huron Hospital in East Cleveland. The congresswoman had been driving erratically and her vehicle crossed lanes of traffic before coming to a stop, police said.

Tubbs Jones "collapsed when she suffered a very serious brain hemorrhage caused by an aneurysm that burst in an inaccessible part of her brain," Kious said during a news conference. A team of doctors who evaluated her determined she has limited brain function.

I'm not a fan of the Distinguished Lady from Ohio. I disagree with her politics. But as I have said several times of late, political differences should generally be set aside when we are talking about matters of serious illness or death. After all, some things simply matter more than politics -- and chief among them is our common humanity.

Unfortunately, the last sentence of the excerpt above is rather troubling, and leads me to believe that the medical team is merely waiting for a family decision on this one before unplugging the machines and making official the erroneous reports of earlier in the day. So in addition to prayers for a miraculous act by the Almighty to heal the congresswoman, I also ask for guidance for her family to know what the best course of action in accord with God's will is in this instance.

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