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Feeding tube removed from comatose woman at center of long-running legal battle
Associated Press ^ | 10-15-03

Posted on 10/15/2003 12:18:18 PM PDT by Brian S

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:44:25 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]


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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: catholiclist; terrischiavo
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To: Brian S
I will be praying this women gets out of bed and goes and gets her own glass of water.
41 posted on 10/15/2003 12:31:49 PM PDT by Chewbacca (Nothing burps better than bacon!)
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To: CounterCounterCulture
Bill Press is an idiot. There are LAWS against people starving their pets or animals. I guess it's OK now to do it to humans.

FOX is reporting "a comatose woman is BEING ALLOWED to die"...

sw

42 posted on 10/15/2003 12:31:53 PM PDT by spectre ( www.jeb@jeb.org)
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To: Brian S
God Help Us All
43 posted on 10/15/2003 12:31:53 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache (On Sale October 21st...Rush In Rio. 3 cd's and 2 DVD Set. Buy it! Support both Rush's!)
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To: stanz
We failed to save Elian. We are failing to save Terri....We are losing the Ten Commandments, and in a day or two the words "under G-d" from our pledge. We must NOT loste faith. We must PRAY for God to intervene and we must also know that if we do not start to act as boldly as our beliefs, we will be on the receiving in of G-d's mighty wrath and judgement.

How can anyone that believes in Our Creator have the ability to deny someone's right to live? May G-d have mercy on us all.
44 posted on 10/15/2003 12:32:40 PM PDT by snickeroon
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To: Brian S
ITS NOT TOO LATE. THE FEEDING TUBE CAN BE REINSERTED. PRAY AND CONTINUE TO WORK LIKE HELL. DO NOT GIVE UP. THIS INSANITY CAN NOT STAND. THIS POOR DEFENSELESS GIRL IS BEING MURDERED JUST AS SURELY AS IF SHE WERE POISONED.THE STATE MUST STEP IN. IT IS NOT TOO LATE. KEEP WORKING, AND PRAY.
45 posted on 10/15/2003 12:32:58 PM PDT by mict42
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To: pram
It's more that sad, it is a landmark. When people can be killed because one person wants them dead, what is to stop the 21st century version of Cyklon B and gas ovens?

Answer: Not one damn thing.

And of course the cop guarding her room so as to prevent her parents being with her when she dies is "just following orders."

If he has a wife and kids they should be ordered to witness her death so they can see how daddy "serves and protects."

Sorry, I generally have the greatest of respect for LE officers...but I'm just livid at this.

I wonder how those brave officers would respond to swarm of people storming the hospice to secure her and remove her to safety. Would they use deadly force against women, kids and old people? This whole situation is simply nauseating.

46 posted on 10/15/2003 12:33:07 PM PDT by mitchbert (Facts are Stubborn Things)
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To: tutstar
If the Associated Press headline writer had read the story properly, he wouldn't have used the "c" word.

Or, more likely, he is one of the 'right to die' zealots who doesn't know the difference between killing someone and letting a dying person (which Terri wasn't) die.
47 posted on 10/15/2003 12:33:24 PM PDT by repentant_pundit (For the Sons and Daughters of Every Planet on the Earth)
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To: My Favorite Headache
This smacks of Nazi-ism.
48 posted on 10/15/2003 12:34:12 PM PDT by EggsAckley (..........................all my pings are belong to ......YOU.....................)
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To: mict42
>>>ITS NOT TOO LATE. THE FEEDING TUBE CAN BE REINSERTED.

Heck with the tube. Is she sedated? Can her parents still enter the hospital? She CAN eat and drink, she has been conditioned not to. How can we get her to eat and drink? This removes the power her husband has over her.
49 posted on 10/15/2003 12:35:38 PM PDT by Calpernia (Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
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To: repentant_pundit
Almost all the stories are inaccurate, vegetative would describe someone with no brain activity....it's all so sickening....
50 posted on 10/15/2003 12:36:56 PM PDT by tutstar
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To: mitchbert
"Just following orders" is not a legal excuse even in the military to stand by and watch an atrocity, like in Germany, take place. Rules must be broken and then righted to protect the sancity of human life, nomatter how we puzzle of the meaning of some existance.
51 posted on 10/15/2003 12:37:12 PM PDT by mict42
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To: Frank_Discussion
Evil.

Thank you. Words mean thing... this isn't sad, or sick, or tragic ... It is deliberately torturing a helpless woman to death, with the full consent and blessing of the government.

Evil.

52 posted on 10/15/2003 12:37:15 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard
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To: Calpernia
It seems to me that by sedating her they are tacitly acknowledging that she may well suffer, right? If this is supposed to be peaceful, painless and without suffering, why is there a need for sedation?

Am I missing something? If she's "vegetative" and "unable to respond to stimuli", then why do they need to sedate her? Wouldn't sedation only make sense if she was aware and able to respond to the stimulus of starvation, i.e., severe cramping, stomach pain, muscle contractions and so on?
53 posted on 10/15/2003 12:38:03 PM PDT by apollo11
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To: repentant_pundit
How many Freepers can get to this hospital and start mobilizing more and more to pray and SING!!!! Can there be forces mobilized that can and WILL NOT be ignored? What can we do? What does Our Father want for us to do (in addition to prayer).

Pray also for Terri's family and her incredible parents.
54 posted on 10/15/2003 12:38:22 PM PDT by snickeroon
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To: RosieCotton
Sam Donaldson was disgusting this morning. Caller after caller saying "well if the Doctors say she's better off dead, then I guess it's for the best." Sam better watch it... he's kind of getting up there himself. He's just s atroke away from his own euthanazia.
55 posted on 10/15/2003 12:38:38 PM PDT by johnb838 (sarcasm tags are for wimps)
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To: Spiff
"...feeding tube keeping a severely brain-damaged woman alive..."

That's like saying that my refrigerator, from which I obtain food, is keeping me alive.

56 posted on 10/15/2003 12:38:43 PM PDT by repentant_pundit (For the Sons and Daughters of Every Planet on the Earth)
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To: Brian S
We all must pray for Terri to have the will to fight and eat.

This fight is not over. Pray. Pray hard.
57 posted on 10/15/2003 12:38:56 PM PDT by Gophack
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To: pram
>>Zyklon B

Lebens unwertes leben, 21st Century American style.

58 posted on 10/15/2003 12:39:06 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard
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To: Calpernia
She CAN eat and drink, she has been conditioned not to. How can we get her to eat and drink? This removes the power her husband has over her.

The judge has ORDERED that no one try to feed her. Just appalling. There is no corner of hell hot enough for this judge.

59 posted on 10/15/2003 12:39:27 PM PDT by .38sw
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To: Theodore R.
People like Michael Schivao often live into their nineties.

He may have paid off this judge, or at the very least, fooled him. But he seems to be unaware that another Judge awaits him who cannot be bribed or fooled. We may not see the justice, but MS will.

60 posted on 10/15/2003 12:39:42 PM PDT by twigs
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