Posted on 03/31/2005 3:58:32 PM PST by kingattax
Congressional and state lawmakers offered their condolences Thursday to the family of Terri Schiavo (search) and said the severely brain-damaged woman's death left many emotional issues to be dealt with.
"Today, millions of Americans are saddened by the death of Terri Schiavo," President Bush said just before commenting on a weapons of mass destruction report issued by a blue-ribbon commission on Thursday.
Saying Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler (search), displayed "grace and dignity" throughout the long, emotional ordeal, Bush urged those grieving to "continue to work to build a culture of life where all Americans are welcomed and valued and protected, especially those that live at the mercy of others."
He added: "The strong have a duty to protect the weak. In cases where there are serious doubts and questions; the presumption should be in favor of life."
Bush returned from his ranch in Crawford, Texas, the weekend that Schiavo's feeding tube was removed to sign into law an extraordinary measure passed by Congress allowing the Schiavo case to be reviewed by federal courts. The Schindlers tried many legal routes in an effort to get their daughter's feeding tube reinserted but were continually denied that request.
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How about legal issues left to be dealt with?
Thanks for this post, Kingattax.
The murder of Terri Schiavo has been a real hurt to me.
There is no way that I can ever forget this, not as long as I live. It has taken away much of the faith that I had in my government and the rule of law.
Congress and the President tried to save her (ineffectually).
The federal courts did all they could to avoid giving her a de novo trial, ignoring Congressional intent in the process.
It was a judicial murder by the Florida state courts, and the attempt to give her a chance in the federal courts were rebuffed by those courts.
It is disgusting and an outrage.
The murder of Terri Schiavo has been a real hurt to me.
There is no way that I can ever forget this, not as long as I live. It has taken away much of the faith that I had in my government and the rule of law.
If depriving of food and water is OK until dead, why not depriving of air. A little too fast death, huh? Deprive all heat... that whole shivering until dead thing... not a pretty picture. Why use a bed to uphold and protect against gravitational forces... Yes, I'm being absurd. All these forces and natures are steps that are to be taken to survive are assumed, and that they are required, by even single cell life without a brain.
Is one required element better to deprive than another, other than to make the depriver, feel less negative toward oneself? Is that what this what this was all about? I'm going to go throw up now.
Delay was ripping. He said he holds the courts responsible, including the Supreme Court.
Nice words. We sure talk a good game. When is this "Culture of Life" going to actually come into being? It seems like the time is never right to make it happen, to actively accelerate it. We just keep putting it off until tomorrow. But tomorrow never seems to come.
Am I the only person who just rolled my eyes and spat with disgust at the "condolences" offered by Bush to the Schindlers? This atrocity that occurred on his, and his brother's, watches will go down in everlasting infamy to these two. Particularly for the "Governor" of Florida.
as far as I'm concerned, this was a very low point in our history.
a disabled woman who had no terminal illness was denied justice and due process and put to death in "AMERICA".
this was a case where much more than words was necessary to save her from her killers.
more than words was necessary in afghanistan; more than words was necessary in iraq; and more than words was necessary to save terri.
If they arrested you today for being a Christian would there be enough evidence to convict you? Until those among us who find this enough of an outrage to bush back from the keyboard and work for justice we will differ from Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia and Maoist China only in in the scale of our evil, not in the scope of it. What are you going to do?
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