Feeding tube removed from comatose woman at center of long-running legal battle

Associated Press ^ | 10-15-03

[TexasCowboy]

I can see you're getting information from different sources than me.
I've read nothing about the husband's abuse of her.
I'll back out of this debate with apologies for being uninformed.

[JulieRNR21]

Just watching the rerun...the Dr, is Glenn McGee who wrote 'Beyond Genetics'

[texasbluebell]

Because it is considered dying naturally, since about 1990 when that ruling was made by the US Supreme Court.

How can the Florida statute that says food cannot be withheld from a disabled adult then fit with this SC ruling? Something doesn't jibe here.

[MarMema]

THANK YOU both, so much...

[Conservative til I die]

Today's the Feast Day of St. Teresa of Avila in the Catholic Church. Coincidence that she shares the same name as Terri? *AND* the Orthodox feast day has to do with famine and dehydration? Hmmmmmmmm.....

[MarMema]

Because she has a right to die, if her guardian says this is what she would have wanted.

[MarMema]

pretty big coincidence eh?

[TexasCowboy]

It was my understanding that he was refused a divorce.
If that is not the case, then I withdraw my statement.

One thing to remember, however, is that we have no way of knowing what kind of arrangement was made between the husband and wife in case something like this should ever happen.
My sis made me promise that I'd pull the plug when she needed artificial resuscitation, but no one knew that but me.
It wouldn't have made it any easier to do.

[Humidston]

Great minds and all that.... ;-)

[First Amendment]

If you haven't yet, please read some of the large body of information available on FR about this situation. It is indisputable once you have read it. The parents want to take care of her, the husband has refused her to have any rehab at all, even after receiving large monies to pay for it, and many doctors have testified that she would likely improve functioning if she had rehab and training.
What more can be said?

[MarMema]

"Editor-In-Chief of the American Journal of Bioethics; Associate director and professor at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania; columnist for MSNBC online, and author of The Human Cloning Debate and The Perfect Baby."

[texasbluebell]

You have to put the blame on these people 1) Michael Shitavo 2) George Felos 3) Judge George Greer 4) Satan!

I certainly hope I didn't give anyone the impression that I was blaming the Schindlers or their atty for any of this! Far from it. They've tried for 13 years to save Terri. It seems they're stymied at every turn.

[Pegita]

Heavenly Father, this day is closing like no other day we've seen. We're witness to an innocent, harmless woman deliberately cut off from nourishment that feeds her body. We're witness to law enforcement officers on duty at the bedside of a now dying woman. We're witness to parents and siblings who must be escorted into the room of their loved one ... not free to comfort or grieve or mourn or hold their beloved through the night. They must wait on the outside, while she's dying in the inner room. These are the ones who love her, Lord.

And yet, the ones who promised to cherish and protect her are no where to be seen. Her husband is in the arms of another woman ... the judge has ruled and gone home ... and their lives go on.

But there are those who stand in the dark ... people unknown to Terri ... but people in prayer and in tears and wanting so to help ... but judgment has been passed. We praise You, Almighty God, that the judgment of men will not stand before You, the Righteous Judge. We continue to plead for Terri's life ... we thank You that good men search the law that she might be saved ... that we might continue to be law abiding while protecting our people. This is so far above what we are able to do ... we thank You, Father, that all things are possible with You ... and so we rest in that.

Gracious Lord, please cause Terri and her family ... and all those who have labored long on her behalf ... may they feel an overpowering love that comes from You, Creator God, mixed with the love from each of us ... may this love comfort them and sustain them and encourage them ... though we are mourning with them through the night, we continue to pray that there will be joy in the morning ... in the name of Jesus, God's own Beloved Son ... Amen ...

[MarMema]

Wrong order, anyway. Satan comes first. The rest are his workers.

[katnip]

Thank you for that beautiful prayer. Goodnight.

[MHGinTN]

Forgive me, Cowboy. I'm a bit strung out on this at present, watching an incompetent judge order the dehydration death of a 'disabled but still there' woman. There is so much rotten about this case that the general public has not been informed of, and the 'big networks' have not helped by calling her 'comatose' or 'in a coma' when she is far more aware than that and even more aware than what is the definition of persistent vegetative state. will she ever be 'normal' again? No, that isn't likely, but she can live many more years learning to do the things she's been deprived of doing for the past decade under Michael Schiavo's crushing abuse and neglect.

[dixiegrrl]

No that reply was for all the ones that want to come on these threads and start stuff!!

[dixiegrrl]

Do you know if the hospice they have Terri at gets any federal money?

[Graymatter]

Poll -- "Should congress take action to save Terri Schindler?" Currently running 75% yes.

http://www.washingtondispatch.com/poll.shtml


Townhall.com has some articles linked on its main page.

[Lovergirl]

What did they tell her? Will she notice her tube was removed? This has me in such anger.