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

Associated Press ^ | 10-15-03

[dixiegrrl]

Thanks just voted! Still 75%.

[amom]

Amen and amen.

[MHGinTN]

They are being paid via Medicaid/Medicare!

[dixiegrrl]

Thank you for your beautiful prayers. You always seem to show up with them when I about ready to lose it! Thanks and may God bless you

[EternalVigilance]

Amen.

[dixiegrrl]

How about a federal Lawsuit!! Found this here http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/14402.html
TITLE 42 > CHAPTER 138 > Sec. 14402. Prev | Next

Sec. 14402. - Restriction on use of Federal funds under health care programs

(a) Restriction on Federal funding of health care services

Subject to subsection (b) of this section, no funds appropriated by Congress for the purpose of paying (directly or indirectly) for the provision of health care services may be used -

(1)

to provide any health care item or service furnished for the purpose of causing, or for the purpose of assisting in causing, the death of any individual, such as by assisted suicide, euthanasia, or mercy killing;

(2)

to pay (directly, through payment of Federal financial participation or other matching payment, or otherwise) for such an item or service, including payment of expenses relating to such an item or service; or

(3)

to pay (in whole or in part) for health benefit coverage that includes any coverage of such an item or service or of any expenses relating to such an item or service.

(b) Construction and treatment of certain services

Nothing in subsection (a) of this section, or in any other provision of this chapter (or in any amendment made by this chapter), shall be construed to apply to or to affect any limitation relating to -

(1)

the withholding or withdrawing of medical treatment or medical care;

(2)

the withholding or withdrawing of nutrition or hydration;

(3)

abortion; or

(4)

the use of an item, good, benefit, or service furnished for the purpose of alleviating pain or discomfort, even if such use may increase the risk of death, so long as such item, good, benefit, or service is not also furnished for the purpose of causing, or the purpose of assisting in causing, death, for any reason.

[MarMema]

That's the first decent poll I have seen on this case.

[sinkspur]

This very moment a woman is intentionally being starved to death, and this is the best nonsense they can come up with? This is a disgusting indecency and demeaning to society and the respect of human life. Sickening!

Bush is a governor, not a king. Should he overturn any judicial decision he disagrees with?

[amom]

Hummm...good...

[MarMema]

We now reside in a judicial monarchy. Bet you thought it was a republic....

[TexasCowboy]

"What more can be said?"

Nothing, I'm afraid.
Please excuse my ignorance.
There's a lot that hasn't been said by the main stream media, and that doesn't surprise me at all.

[L.N. Smithee]

This must give the husband's new girlfriend a lot of confidence in his trustworthyness.

For every scumbag, there is a woman who is so desperate to be needed and loved that she will endure being with a scumbag. Look at O.J.

[MarMema]

er, the correct wording is "terminal dehydration" in the medical field. She won't survive long enough to starve, which takes about 40 days.

[Humidston]

The Perfect Baby? Oh dear God....

[MarMema]

Though some still call it "mercy killing".

[nmh]

"Attorneys representing her husband, Michael Schiavo, said it will take between a week and 10 days for her to die."

Horrific. Beyond words.

[First Amendment]

Imagine the d**kless legalese statements issued by Gov. Bush's "people" - but instead of Terri being killed, it was about escaped black slaves being dragged back to their overseers and "owners". Or about Jews being dragged off to the railroad cars. What the hell is the difference? The almighty human law is being followed, who cares about the Divine Law?

[MarMema]

I'll work more on him tomorrow. He is gonna turn out to be a real winner, I can bet on it.

The real problem in this country is all those bioethics courses and colleges. We are now seeing the fruit of their graduates.