Posted on 03/26/2005 7:22:51 PM PST by marquis7772
Although Florida governor Jeb Bush has for all intents and purposes tossed in the towel in any eleventh-hour rescue of Terri Shiavo, at least one former legal advisor is admonishing the chief executive for not using the state's criminal laws as authority to intervene – without the need for family or judicial approval – and reinsert the hospice patient's feeding tube.
Richard Thompson, the president and chief counsel of the Thomas Moore Law Center, says doing so would preserve the life of a material witness in a potential criminal case. Story Continues Below
The launching of a formal criminal investigation into possible abuse of the helpless patient would allow the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to remove Schiavo from the custody of her current guardian – husband Michael Schiavo, who has been for years dedicated to terminating the artificial feeding of his brain-damaged wife.
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As Terri said, "Where there is life, there is hope."
In my opinion Richard Thompson is a kook who lost his job as a prosecutor because despite over a hundred assisted suicides, he couldn't even convict Jack Kevorkian. Thompson should be ignored.
Ha, this is old news and JEB decided to disregard it! JEb is not going to do a thing! He's done, washed his hands! Not his problem!
I heard that Terri's father asked Michael after the lawsuit when he was going to start Terri's rehabilitation. That was when Michael said no.
I heard the brother of Michael Schiavo of Geraldo this evening on FNS. The brother, Scott, said that when Grandma died Terri looked Michael right in the eye and said she'd never want to be on a machine like that.
Well, Scott, is a feeding tube a machine?
Actually, when I hear friends of Terri say that she was contemplating divorcing Michael, she may have been telling Michael the night she collapsed that she did not want to live this way with him.
I hope someday when all who have said no to Terri's life with such sanctimonious knowledge that she is a 'vegetable' and is feeling no pain whatsoever and deserved to die in such a vile, heinous, barbaric and horrific manner, will someday see how terribly wrong they were to condemn her to death by starvation.
Heck, I say find some unsolved murder from then that they could potentially tie to Terri somehow and arrest her for it. Then she would have the full protection of the courts. Pretty sad, really.
Just forget the courts and see if this rings any bells.
And when this constution fails to serve the rights of the people it shall be abolished.
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