Posted on 03/08/2005 5:44:59 PM PST by FR_addict
Federal bill introduced to save Terri Schiavo Measure gives incapacitated same due process as condemned inmates
Two Republican lawmakers from Florida introduced legislation in Congress today they hope will save the life of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman whose parents are battling a court order to remove her life-sustaining feeding tube.
Sen. Mel Martinez and Rep. David Weldon say the Incapacitated Person's Legal Protection Act will give Schiavo, and others in similar situations, the same constitutional protection of due process as death-row inmates.
Current law leaves the rights of disabled persons at the mercy of courts instead of the Constitution, the lawmakers argue.
The new measure would not apply to cases in which an advance medical directive is in effect.
Terri Schiavo faces forced starvation because Florida law allows for testimony of oral expressions of end-of-life wishes.
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Has anyone spoken out against this bill?
That's a good question. I don't know.
It was introduced today. I've been trying to find out how it is doing.
That's a good question. I don't know.
It was introduced today. I've been trying to find out how it is doing.
Someone better. The end of life is no place for the Federal Government to be mucking around in.
Fast and pray. This is very important as well as other action.
All this Bill would do is give Terri the same rights as a death row inmate, nothing nore.
the Federal Government are turning into Nazis
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The Federal Government is our savior.
the Federal Government are turning into Nazis
I've never made such a statement.
Making policy based on one extraordinary situation at the peak of emotion always makes the situation worse..
Waiting has worked so well in other right-to-life issues such as abortion. It will work in the case of euthanasia getting a foothold too.
LOL
>Someone better. The end of life is no place for the Federal Government to be mucking around in.<
Don't worry, there is protection for you if you prepare a Living Will. Note the article reads, "The new measure would not apply to cases in which an advance medical directive is in effect."
However, assuming this bill is passed, no longer will greedy spouses or children be able to legally starve and dehydrate you for your money, or because you are inconvenient.
A man comes into the ER, stroke, unconscious. His only living relative is his son who instructs the staff to treat him with comfort care only - DNR/DNI. He has no living will and never communicated his wishes to anyone.
Under your bill, how does the Federal Government get involved?
You blew me off but I'm really interested in hearing how your proposed law would play with the scenerio I posted.
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