Pamela A.M. Campbell was the attorney that lost the Terri Schiavo trial.
Although she no longer works as a lobbyist, she remains active in politics. She is a member of the Suncoast Tiger Bay Club and a former board member for the organization. "One of our greatest rights as Americans is our responsibility to speak out and participate," she says."I have two times every year when I make an evaluation of my life and decide what I should do differently," she says. "Those days are July 15, my birthday, and New Year's Eve.http://www.stpetebar.com/index_frame.htm?http://www.stpetebar.com/v3_giv_campbell.htm
President Bush, or Governor Bush...
Please get this woman some GLASSES.
She has been VERY nearsighted all her life.
It is NO WONDER she seemed to do poorly for 3 doctors
use your EXECUTIVE POWER to take this woman into protective custody and give her 60 days of THERAPY....
STARTING with SWALLOWING THERAPY. There is nothing 'experimental' about it. She ALREADY CAN swallow.
The therapy will be deemed an Easter miracle, and will prove you to be a saint and humanitarian.
It's old, but the book
Playing God in the Nursery by Jeff Lyon is still one of the best sources on the baby Doe cases, and other cases of that nature.
One case haunts me. There was a child with moderate/severe birth defects born in Indiana IIRC. Care would be provided for the child, but care in that state's system was distributed on a "triage" basis : The severity of the child's condition, the likelihood and extent of projected improvement, and the educational and intellecual level of the parent(s). The last was justified on the need for the parent to take charge of the daily after care, giving medicine, etc.
The little boy's case was turned down, and it later was learned (the parents sued) that children with more severe defects had been accepted and treated. So why was the little boy rejected, if he had less severe defects, and his parents were highly motivated and loving?
The little boy was named Stonewall Jackson "Doe".
I believe that the state medical officials (it was above the Mason-Dixon line, even if it wasn't Indiana) took one look at that "redneck" name and just ASSumed the parents had to be too stupid and ignorant to be able to care for the child. Or maybe they ASSumed they were racists, so they deserved to be punished...Or that the child was obviously genetically inferior, having parents "like that." I don't know-but I truly believe that child was allowed to die because of (probably subconscious) disapproval of his name.
