Posted on 03/31/2005 7:22:52 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (Reuters) - Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman at the heart of a wrenching dispute over her fate that drew in the Congress and President Bush, died on Thursday, a spokesman for the parents said.
"She's just died," said Brother Paul O'Donnell, a Franciscan monk and spiritual adviser to the parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, who fought a seven-year legal battle to keep their daughter alive.
Schiavo, 41, died 13 days after her tube feeding was halted under order from a state court.
She had been in what courts ruled was a "persistent vegetative state" since her heart briefly stopped in 1990, depriving her brain of oxygen. Courts had long sided with her husband and legal guardian, Michael Schiavo, in ruling she would not have wanted to live like this and should be allowed to die.
But the Schindlers fought in courts to prolong their daughter's life and won support from an array of conservative Christians and right-to-life and anti-abortion activists.
The Republican-controlled Congress rushed through a special law after Schiavo's feeding was halted on March 18 to allow the parents to take their case from state courts into federal courts.
But the effort, which opinion polls showed was unpopular with most Americans, failed when federal judges refused the parents' request to order feeding resumed. The latest rebuff, from the U.S. Supreme Court, came late on Wednesday night.
I think that is what Terri tried to do, and that is why she is now dead.
No.
Many did, gleefully.
You apparently did not read many threads.
Still, don't complain.
Name names, then. And let them come forth to defend themselves.
Don't complain.
That's what I thought.
Foolishness. No on supports lawlessness least of all Christians. But when laws become unjust. When they are used to starve innocents, prevent parents from protecting and raising their children, allow doctors to suck the brains out of full term babies. You gotta wonder who in the hell is interpreting our Constitution. Its NOT the Constitution of our fathers, and the change has come from these whack job Judges, who have sacraficed justice to the God of this world. Our system is in crisis. Changes need to be made. Those without voices and power, the most innocent in our system are casualties of our intellectual foolishness. And thats where we should all draw the line.
Interesting...very intersting...does anyone know anything about Michael's parents?
Excuse me, but did YOU get on a plane and
go to Washington DC to protest for more action???
Did YOU go to Florida to stand on the sidewalk
with those supporting Terri's family?
We have become a nation of lazy, complaining
mushrooms, who just bitch that the BIG MAN didn't do
anything.
Hey, this is a FREE COUNTRY. You had the freedom
to be there everyday for 13 DAYS.
Where were you???
If a MILLION people had showed up in Flordia maybe
this would have gone different.
The POWER IS ours, but we have to use it.
That makes two of us and I am also sick of new posters that kept putting up vanity after vanity stirring the pot on here even more. We have some very good lawyers on here that have given their opinions. I will take their opinions any day over some new sign up person who knows everything and posts vanities to tell us.
This attack on the Bush brothers and Federal Courts is wrong IMHO. I don't want activist judges who rule on emotion -- I want them to rule on the law and the petition that is before them.
If they want someone to blame -- blame the husband who requested the feeding tube be removed.
RIP, Terri.
The only reason we ever heard of Terri Schiavo is because her parents objected to Michael's decision to remove the feeding tube, eight years ago. Had they agreed with him, the tube would have been removed.
Thousands of times a week, all over the country, the same decision is agreed to by all involved, and tubes are removed.
Change the laws, and write a living will.
You didn't think anything.
You think bickering is of some value.
Posted by Servant of the 9 to Fan_Of_Ingraham
On General/Chat 03/28/2005 10:13:14 AM PST · 58 of 136
If the FEDS are not to intervene with the unlawful execution of a private citizen, then when exactly if federal intervention suitable?
Get real.
It is not an executiona and it is not illegal and it happens tens of thousands of times a year in this country, and that is the way the vast majority of people like it.
Very few people want to live in Terri's condition, and if they don't have a living will to say so, too damned bad, they are dieing of their own stupidity and thoughtlessness.
So9
I do know without a doubt had it been one of his beloved and beautiful daughters that married such a brute of an evil husband and she ended up like Terri, nothing would stop him from saving her.
I spit on the rule of law that condemns an innocent defenseless otherwise healthy disabled woman to such a barbaric, heinous, horrific death by starvation. My hopes are that all that turned their well fed stomachs against innocent Terri and placed their name to her death decree will be forever haunted by what they did and what they could have done as men against pure evil.
If Hillary wins we deserve it.
Plain as day. Don't complain.
I don't hate Jeb Bush or George. They didn't do bad.
They just showed their weaknesses.
Don't complain if enthusiasm wanes.
I'll wait.
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