Abuse report filed for Terri Schiavo (Judicial Watch and Klayman Jump In)

World Net Daily ^ | Oct. 18, 2003 1AM | None ID's

[litany_of_lies]

Abuse report filed for Terri Schiavo
Judicial Watch says it now has given Jeb Bush premise to intervene

Posted: October 18, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

The Washington, D.C., watchdog group Judicial Watch filed an abuse complaint it says will allow Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to intervene on behalf of Terri Schindler-Schiavo, the brain-disabled woman who is starving under a court order initiated by her husband.

Judicial Watch President Thomas Fitton faxed a "Form to Report Abuse/Abandonment/Neglect/Exploitation" with the Florida Department of Children and Families yesterday then sent a letter to Bush and DCF Secretary Jerry Regier.

The letter said, "Based on our formal complaint via the faxed report referenced above, you have the authority and sufficient cause to immediately order the Florida Department of Children and Family Services to intervene on behalf of Ms. Schiavo; to restore her nutrition; and to initiate a full investigation of the circumstances surrounding Ms. Schiavo’s disability."

Fitton said these actions are in accord with the U.S. Constitution, the Florida Constitution, Article 2, Section 5, and Florida statutes 825.102 and 782.04(2)(i), 77.04.

The abuse report, under "Description of Incident," says:

Thirteen years ago Terri Schiavo suffered brain damage from a sudden collapse. She receives her food and water by means of a feeding tube. Terri's other bodily functions are stable. She responds to voices, and is capable of smiling, laughing and crying. She vocalizes well.

Terri's husband, Michael Schiavo, has denied her any rehabilitation treatment since 1993. On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, Michael Schiavo directed that Terri's feeding tube be disconnected, subjecting her to starvation and dehydration that will result in an anguishing death in approximately 10 to 14 days.

Judicial Watch is known for its many lawsuits against President Clinton's administration. But the group, led by Larry Klayman, also has taken on the current White House, including a lawsuit to force the release of information about Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force.

Klayman recently declared he will run for a U.S. Senate seat from Florida.

Legal documents and information on Terri's case are posted on the family's website.

Previous stories

Desperate parents plead to Jeb Bush
Lawyers: Bush can step in for Schiavo
Starvation begins for Terri Schiavo
Husband protests video showing alert Terri
Terri Schiavo wants to live
No intervention for Schiavo
Joni Eareckson Tada joins vigil for Terri Schiavo
Hearing today on woman scheduled to starve
Prayer vigil for Terri Schiavo
Bush steps in for Schindler-Schiavo
Florida AG intervenes in Schiavo lawsuit
Order signed for starvation of disabled woman
Disabled woman wins reprieve
Another 9-11 date with death
Federal judge considers Schiavo case
Federal Court grants emergency hearing in Schiavo case
Attorney: Jeb Bush letter only a 'good first step'
Gov. Bush's plea for Schindler-Schiavo rejected
Jeb Bush intervenes for Schindler-Schiavo
Legal setbacks clear way for Schiavo starvation
Schindler-Schiavo on 'death row'
Husband bars priest from brain-damaged wife
Brain-damaged woman hospitalized
Fight for life bombshell: Terri trying to talk
Petition drive launched for Terri Schiavo
Commentary: 'Murder is legal if we say so'

[FITZ]

Just why does a man get to determine she is to die? Who made him God?

You'd think the feminists would be outraged that an adulterous husband can consider himself still the owner of his wife and make a decision on his own that he wants her money so she must die. The family who loves her has nothing to say regarding her life. He can dictate they never visit her, that they cannot bring her food.

[syriacus]

Pollyanna

Didn't that story, Pollyanna, have a happy ending?

[diamond6]

Ignore him.

[diamond6]

God bless you, your husband and child! You are brave and admirable. Most people opt to abort, but you didn't.
You have my utmost respect.

[Theodore R.]

Actually, in the VA case of Hugh Finn that happened. He was brain-injured in an auto accident in Louisville, KY, but was moved to VA for "treatment." Then the "wife" pressured to have the feeding tube removed. In her case, she may or may not have had another man (I cannot recall.) but she got some $500,000 in insurance. His parents tried to keep Finn alive but the courts in VA were strongly pro-euthanasia too. The $500,000 was a pretty good incentive in the modern USA to get an inconvenient person out of the way. I also think that the senior Finns were denied contact with their grandchildren, Hugh's children by the ambitious "wife." I don't know if Hugh Finn was as alert as Terri was or not.

[syriacus]

I lost my sister, and it was her husband, along with my parents, who had to make the decision to remove her from life support.

Even the Hemlock Society has said that feeding should only be stopped when the patient is near death.

Terri was not near death when they began to starve her. Her body was not shutting down, as the bodies of terminal patients shut down.

[Dustbunny]

I really did not know much about this case, so I went to http://www.terrisfight.org and read up on it. If it is as the site for Teri Schiavo says, her husband is murdering her with the help of the state.

Guess losing all that money would he a hardship for him, so instead of divorcing her, he will have the state murder her for him.

Unbelievable

[syriacus]

death for the believer is just the beginning of a glorious eternity

I agree that is the one comforting thought.

BTW, Laci Peterson is in that glorious eternity, too.

So are Ted Bundy's victims.

Evil actions put them in the glorious eternity.

[syriacus]

Else perhaps a bunch of piss-ant do-gooders may consign me to the horror of years of suffering a living death in a hospital bed somewhere.

[irony and logic mode: ON]

But we are talking about Terri. Terri's condition was different than what you describe.

You needn't worry that Terri suffered a living death for years. Just ask her husband's lawyer, George Felos, and you'll see that he says this.

Felos has assured us, many times, even on national TV, that "Terri" was not inside Terri. He said she was not aware of anything.

So according to Mike Schiavo's own lawyer, Terri has not been "suffering a living death."

If Terri wasn't feeling anything, then she wasn't suffering, so why does Mike need to kill her?

[irony and logic mode: off]

[syriacus]

I informed all the adults at our Friday night youth group meeting about Terri's fight. We lifted her and her family up in prayer together last night.

Wonderful!!

[syriacus]

Nice. Thank you.

[kenth]

Thank you for responding to that. It's moral relativism at its finest, isn't it?

He's suggesting that since the afterlife is such a wonderful reward, that we should be grateful that Michael Sciavo is killing her. Heck, why don't we just kill all those we love. It's sending them to a better place, right? Why even try murderers? They are merely sending people to God.

Using His glorious kingdom to defend murder...

[shhrubbery!]

Why do I not have a good feeling about Klayman running for Senate as an R? My immediate reaction is that there must be better Pubbies out there (Katherine Harris, perhaps?)

Sadly I think Katharine Harris may not be the best candidate.

She went on the Sean Hannity radio program recently, positively burbling over her "first bill," something called the American Dream Act or some such nonsense -- which turns out to be an affirmative action-style giveaway program. I believe her program gives down-payment money for a house to certain politically correct groups.

This is not my idea of a good Republican.

[syriacus]

My mother recently passed away after having made the decision not "to linger." She was 86. We honored her living will and made sure that the doctors respected her DNR request.]

Was she terminally ill?

[JulieRNR21]

This is no longer only Terris Fight... The fight for Terri has become every parent of a disabled childs platform to protect the future right of life for their children.

Exactly......and that is precisely why so many are joining the fight to save Terri. Terri's 'judicial murder' has far reaching implications.

You have a beautiful little girl.

May God Bless her and all your family.

[cake_crumb]

"My daughter was given a death sentence before she was ever given the opportunity to live by doctors who swore she would never be more than a shell of child, and would die before her first birthday, she is now a normal 2 year old, who just cant eat by mouth, nothing else sustains her life, but her feeding tube. (kinda like Terri) "

My goodness, that brought tears to my eyes. May God continue to bless your little daughter, your husband and you.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Oh, puh-LEAZE. You ghouls would have chained that poor woman to that lifeless shell for her entire life.

I don't know Michelle Finn, but my wife does, and believe it or not, she doesn't have fangs or horns, nor did she get "rich".

What she went through should never have to be endured by anyone.

[JulieRNR21]

Sadly I think Katharine Harris may not be the best candidate.

She went on the Sean Hannity radio program recently, positively burbling over her "first bill," something called the American Dream Act or some such nonsense -- which turns out to be an affirmative action-style giveaway program. I believe her program gives down-payment money for a house to certain politically correct groups.

This is not my idea of a good Republican.

KH is my Representative and I agree that she should spend more time in the House before seeking a Senate seat.

I think her Bill is designed to come up with a better alternative to public housing projects which eventually become slums.

It gives poor people an opportunity to purchase their own homes. I don't know all the details of the Bill yet but I think her intent is sound....to do away with government funded housing projests & encourage individual home ownership.

[syriacus]

Heck, why don't we just kill all those we love. It's sending them to a better place, right? Why even try murderers? They are merely sending people to God.

You've done a great job of following their logic.

Perhaps we can amble further down that logical lane and say:

Serial killers and mass murderers would be acclaimed as most successful, since they send the largest numbers of innocent people to their glorious places.

(Of course, the killers need to repent at some point, if they want to see their own glorious places when they die.)

[syriacus]

Chancellor Palpatine:

Oh, puh-LEAZE. You ghouls would have chained that poor woman to that lifeless shell for her entire life. I don't know Michelle Finn, but my wife does, and believe it or not, she doesn't have fangs or horns, nor did she get "rich". What she went through should never have to be endured by anyone.

http://www.websunlimited.net/marshall/1999Reportp4.htm

[snip] Hugh's wife claimed on ABC's Good Morning America her husband hadn't communicated at all since his 1995 accident.  Yet seven weeks after that accident, she told a Louisville news conference her husband was awake and talking!

     A Virginia state nurse examined Hugh at Annaburg Manor just before his death.

     "I then went around the bed and faced Mr. Finn," she testified under oath in court.  "I said, 'Hi.'  And he immediately responded with 'Hi.'  ...[He] did not look the same as other chronic vegetative patients... "[snip]

Hugh Finn[excerpt]

Here are collected for the first time many documents relating to the factual background of the Hugh Finn case. Before you reach any conclusions about what actions should or should not have been taken by public officials and Finn family members, please become familiar with some of the relevant facts as documented in this WEB page. A man's life depended upon it then. And other lives will depend upon a correct public understanding of certain problematic provisions of Virginia's Health Care Decisions act, and the way Virginia courts have interpreted this law.

The Hugh Finn case has been distorted regularly in the media by those with an agenda seeking to further the cause for euthanasia.  Many editorials and letters to the editors have made statements and accusations about circumstances surrounding the case without having any true knowledge about the case.  The documents below are provided to help set the record straight and provide information whereby the public can read the facts of the case.