Posted on 03/22/2005 1:46:54 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
A US federal judge yesterday refused to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube, denying an emergency request from the brain-damaged woman's parents.
United States District Judge James Whittemore said the 41-year-old woman's parents had not established a "substantial likelihood of success" at trial on the merits of their arguments.
Rex Sparklin, a lawyer with the law firm representing Mrs Schiavo's parents, said lawyers were immediately appealing to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta to "save Terri's life." That court was already considering an appeal on whether Mrs Schiavo's right to due process had been violated.
Reaction from the handful of protesters outside the woman's hospice came quickly. "It's terrible. They're going to talk and talk and she's going to die," said Miriam Zlotolow, 59. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at theage.com.au ...
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The bustards on the local news in Boston referred to the situation as she is being "de-nourished".
Which other foreign media sources have you read providing this information?
If there is a "right to die", then why are there laws against suicide?
We are a very inconsistent nation.
"Judge gives Schiavo the right to die"
Title should be, 'judge takes away right of Terri to live'.
Remember: it was the hypocrite robed judges of Jesus day that sentenced Him (an innocent) to death too.
Good point.
Moreover, why not put a water tube in her mouth? Then, if she actually wanted to be dehydrated to death it would be her choice.
Andy...this deserves a ditto.
Moreover, why not put a water tube in her mouth? Then, if she actually wanted to be dehydrated to death it would be her choice.
Sounds humane to me pal. You have more sense than these a-hole liberal leftist judges.
This right to die is not a real real roght. There is no "wrongful life". This is a bunch of baloney.
"Judge" Greer, your name shall survive in infamy.
The American Government was designed as a tripod balanced on three legs, the Legislative, Executive and Judiciary. Each was to be a check and balance excess of the other.
The judiciary was to judge based on laws passed by the legislature and agreed to by the executive. Only if the law was contrary to the clear word of our Constitution was the law to be unconstitutional.
Today we have a judiciary running wild, unchecked and certainly unbalanced, a judiciary that can read elimination of religion; freedom to deprive human beings of life, in and out of the womb; elimination of the rights of self-defense and freedom of association into the Constitution that clearly does not say these things. A living document, that is what they call it. By that term they mean it says what they say it says, for they are judges, appointed for life.
The time has come for balance in our government. The time has come for judges who can read, not divine meaning with a scale in their hand. We have no need for judges to make laws, they are to judge based on written law, not give law.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that some men are created equal, that they are endowed by the Courts with certain alienable Rights, that among these are Death, Liberty, except for money, and property, except when the government needs it. --That to secure these rights, Judges are deified, they rule above Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --
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