[pollywog]

Where oh where is the ACLU?

CALL THEM AND FIND OUT!!! I just called the ADA and they said it was not in their jurisdiction to handle a problem like this as it comes under the " right to life". They suggested to get the ACLU involved. I SUGGEST EVERYONE CALL the ACLU at this point.

[NebraskaTrailrider]

My whole family is watching this unfold. My 16 year-old daughter told me this morning that she no longer wants to live in America. She wants to move away when she graduates. I told her it's no better anywhere else. She is very sad and deeply moved about this as she is a diabetic and is familiar with the story about the little diabetic girl who died because her parents didn't believe in giving medicine for illness. She told me in no uncertain terms "Mom, I no longer want to live in America"

I don't ever ever remember having that serious of a thought about America when I was 16. Troubling indeed.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

CALL THEM AND FIND OUT!!! </I

Phone line busy, email sent this morning.

ACLU of Florida 4500 Biscayne Blvd. Suite 340

Miami, FL 33137 (305) 576-2336

General ACLU e-mail: aclufl@aclufl.org

[syriacus]

You asked, where is the ACLU?
Well, we know that, in 1999, they were at a banquet, handing out an award to the former Chief Justice of the Florida State Supreme Court, Gerald Kogan

Kogan not only supports removing feeding tubes, he also believes in physician assisted suicide. Kogan thinks that removing the feeding tube kills a patient, so it is no different than having a doctor administer drugs to kill someone.

Annual ACLU banquet honors Justice Kogan

Always the courageous judge, Justice Kogan used his years on the bench to defend a wide range of individual rights.  In 1997, as Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court, Kogan dissented from the majority decision in Krischer v. McIver, the Florida test case on physician assistance in death brought by the ACLU on behalf of terminally ill patient Charles Hall and his physician Dr. Cecil McIver. 

Few find clear-cut answers in assisted suicide debate

"The court should have been bolder," said Kogan. "We allow doctors to disconnect feeding tubes and respirators. It makes no sense to say there's a difference [from physician assisted death]. In both cases, the doctor is assisting in the patient's death."