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<p>NOTE: According to the contact listed above in the Judge's office who I just got off the phone to, this release was sent out last night via email and fax and will be on the Judge's web site later today.</p>

As of this writing, the killing of Terri Schiavo has not been consummated, but it could be at any moment. There is no "letting her die" going on here, any more than we would be "letting" an infant die if we left him in his playpen and deprived him of food and water for 12 days. While debates have raged over whether such a death is euphoric or agonizing, humane or cruel, we should not blink at the fact that a killing is exactly what we have watched ever since Schiavo's feeding tube was removed on March 18. Much of...

Well, it’s finally happened. We now live in a country where judges have officially obtained deity status. With Roe v. Wade, judges claimed the right to determine who has the privilege of birth. With the Terri Schiavo case, activist judges now claim the power to determine when we all have to die. Some would claim this view to be a little extreme. But the facts are these: a severely disabled woman in Florida is being starved to death because a tiny number of judges have determined that her life is not worth living anymore. Terri is not a vegetable. She...

The Supreme Court's history on right-to-die cases is pretty thin. It ruled in 1990 that a terminally ill person has a right to refuse life-sustaining treatment. And next term it plans to consider whether the federal government can prosecute doctors who help ill patients die. ... Terri Schiavo's case offers a number of legal questions for the Court to consider.... Among them is whether she actually requested that artificial means not be used to keep her alive and whether state or federal courts should be the venue to determine her fate. ... An emergency filing to the high court that...

This is an unprecedented session. The Congress is meeting to save one persons life (in real time). The only reason the Democrats are agreeing to this is that they don’t want to be known as the party that killed Terri. This is American history happening before your eyes.

Virginia Congressman Jim Moran briefly crossed paths with the brother of a severely brain-damaged woman Sunday, but refused to reconsider his position on her case. Terry Schiavo's brother, Bobby Schindler, shook Moran's hand in the House Press Gallery before launching into a passionate defense of legislation making its way through Congress tonight. The bill would effectively take Schiavo's fate out of Florida state courts, where judges ordered the feeding tube removed on Friday, and allow Schiavo's parents to take their case to a federal judge. Schindler gave Moran a CD-Rom with footage of his sister. Moran said he would review...

Words are so easy to use. Words mean things. Words are also easily used, especially when the right words elude. In Florida, Terri Schiavo is now waiting to die. Does she know it? You can be assured she does. Can she speak about it? No. Does that mean she is in a 'vegetative state'? NO! But what is a 'vegetative state'? According to Dr. Jeffrey Frank, director of neurological and neurosurgical intensive care at the University of Chicago, "A person in a vegetative state is 'awake but not aware,'... 'Though reflexes may cause them to turn toward a sound, gaze...

Per FoxNews... Developing...

WASHINGTON -- A House Democrat trying to stop legislation backed by Terri Schiavo's family turned down a request to reconsider his position from her brother when the two ran into each other Sunday in the House Press Gallery. A little awkwardly, Bobby Schindler and Rep. James P. Moran, D-Va., shook hands. Schindler then launched into a passionate defense of the legislation. The bill would effectively take Schiavo's fate out of Florida state courts, where judges ordered the feeding tube removed on Friday, and allow Schiavo's parents to take their case to a federal judge. As reporters and photographers gathered, he...

Continuation of Terri Schiavo daily March threads. Due to overwhelming participation we reached over 5000 posts in three days time!