Posted on 04/20/2005 6:02:23 PM PDT by MisterRepublican
LECCO, Italy (Reuters) - Italy's Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a man's appeal to remove a feeding tube keeping his daughter alive, weeks after a bitter row over brain-damaged Terri Schiavo divided the United States.
The Italian court confirmed an earlier ruling that called feeding Eluana Englaro, in a vegetative state following a 1992 car crash, a "necessary act."
It said a decision to remove the tube required "valuations of life and death that are rooted in concepts of an ethical or religious nature, which are extrajudicial," and said that the issue was also outside the powers of Englaro's father.
Some of doctors looking after the 35-year-old Englaro at a hospital in Lecco, a lakeside town in Northern Italy, have said she reacts to stimulus. Her father Beppino Englaro believes his daughter would want to die.
"Eluana has clearly expressed the wish to die in case of an accident that left her in a coma or a vegetative state," he said some weeks ago.
However, the Supreme Court ruled that since there was no specific evidence of the woman's views on life and death, it was impossible to say that her father's opinion reflected her own.
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This should be a revealing thread ...
Well, isn't that interesting--our courts are using foreign law to help their opinions--
Maybe this court is using OUR courts to show how NOT to make an opinion---
Very interesting....
I was thinking, "Here's an "International Law" that SCOTUS will never cite.".
paging "Justice" Kennedy.
Related to Terri PING.
(Terri mentioned in article)
Attention, Supremes: bookmark this case of international law.
Lecco, Italy, ain't no Amsterdam, that's for sure.
At least in Italy, this judge got it right!
Terri ping! If anyone would like to be added to or removed from my Terri ping list, please let me know by FReepmail!
The Sembers, friends of Greer are intimately involved with the Bush's.
Terri paid a high price for all these fat cats being so chummy.
See 11.
bookmarked
What?! The judges aren't the final say in this?! What?! sarcasm.
No kidding, can't believe that in the US we couldn't get it right but in Italy they did? What nuts!
She sure did pay a high price for all these friendships. So pathetic!
She paid the ultimate price!
""The Sembers, friends of Greer are intimately involved with the Bush's. ""
Wow, Floriduh Voter~!! I'd never heard of the Straight, Inc. program before. Decided to check and see what I could find -->
http://www.theagitator.com/straightfox.php
But the Straight philosophy was far from finished. Many chapters and directors reopened new clinics that employed the same tactics under different names -- such as “KIDS,” “Growing Together,” and “SAFE,” the latter having been visited and praised by Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, despite the fact that a Miami television station reported widespread Straight-like abuse at the facility in a 2000 expose.
Cult expert and intervention specialist Rick Ross says there’s an unfortunate market for “rehab” centers that take burdensome children off the hands of troubled parents. “It amazes me that despite the pattern of complaints and abuse allegations, Straight chapters can simply change their names and continue to operate,” he says.
As the bad publicity and lawsuit losses mounted throughout the 1990’s, the umbrella organization Straight, Inc. changed its name in 1996 to the Drug Free America Foundation, which thrives today under federal subsidies, including $400,000 in the year 2000 and $320,000 from the Small Business Administration
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Who are these people anyway?? And why would the Small Business Administration be giving them 320,000 dollars? The first paragraph above mentions Jeb Bush's praise/approval after visiting a similar program, despite reports of abuse. Good grief~!!!
ping
Will they take their case to Pope Benedict XVI?
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