Flurry of activity to help save Terri

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | October 20, 2003 | WND

[Pegita]

What a change from yesterday to today for dear Michael:

"I did what I BELIEVE Terri would have wanted me to do."

[MarMema]

No dead air right now, but it is just like when they went to lunch at the senate today, so let's keep watching. We can post together here on it.

God, please watch over Terri, and please make Your presence known in this house of reps this very evening. Have mercy on Your child.

[trussell]

LOL

Thats ok, this thread can stand to be bumped a few more times.

[MarMema]

He is a stinking liar because she is without pain meds and that is his fault. God help him when it is his time.

[agrace]

HA, funny, til just a minute ago, I had a kitten lying on top of monitor with paws down in the ready-to-pounce-on-the-cursor position and a 10 month old crawling across the keyboard. Took me a full five minutes to post my last one to MarMema.

Guess it's time to take a break. :)

[MarMema]

Can you just imagine the pain of your kidneys literally being dried up? I want to strangle someone when I think about it. Or vomit or scream very loudly.

[YoungKentuckyConservative]

Me thinks the politicians are just going to "play catch" and delay until there is nothing left to save, and then blame it on the "slowness" of the system. Maybe they'll use it to their advantage to request new "powers".

[The Red Zone]

the senate too

[BlessedBeGod]

Oct 20, 7:17 PM EDT Fla. Lawmakers May Pass Tube-Feeding Law

By JACKIE HALLIFAX
Associated Press Writer

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida lawmakers were moving Monday to consider intervening in the case of a severely brain-damaged woman whose feeding tube was removed last week by her husband's order.

The Florida House scheduled a Monday night session to take up the issue. In the Senate, President Jim King said he will propose legislation that would give Gov. Jeb Bush the authority to order the feeding tube be reinserted to keep Terri Schiavo alive.

The tube was removed Wednesday following a decade-long court battle between Schiavo's parents and their son-in-law, who contends that he is carrying out her wishes not to be kept alive artificially.

"If we are to err - because time is of the essence - for goodness sake let us err on the side of caution," said King, a Republican.

Schiavo has been in what doctors call a vegetative state since her heart stopped in 1990 from a suspected potassium imbalance.

Bush told parents Bob and Mary Schindler last week that his staff would search for legal ways to save their daughter's life, but said Monday they haven't yet found a way.

"The legal ways, the remedies, don't exist," Bush said Monday, before the possible legislative moves became apparent.

Bush added, "I wish I could wave the magic wand and resolve this but every effort that we've had or every effort that has been proposed has either been thwarted by the courts or would be inappropriate."

Meanwhile, in a statement released through his lawyer, husband Michael Schiavo said Monday that he, too, is grieving, but "I did what I believe Terri would have wanted me to do."

Fla. Lawmakers May Pass Tube-Feeding Law

[agrace]

OK, thanks, in that case I'll leave the window open and the volume up to return when I hear them start.

[ShadowDancer]

He is living with a fiance

You can't call her a fiance while he's still married to Terri. If he had any balls at all, he would have divorced Terri and let her family care for her. I haven't read every single piece on this but does anyone have his answer as to why he didn't do this? Aside from any obvious monetary aspects involved?

[Dasaji]

bump

[MarMema]

yes - he is a ghoul.

[Pegita]

Yes ... he hates her.

[MarMema]

My answer is better....... :-) But yours has merit.

[MarMema]

ARGH, whatsmatter with these people? If I were this late to my job at the hospital people could be hurt.

You think DINNER has delayed them?

[ShadowDancer]

Seriously, there had to be PR involved here. Someone had to ask him, 'Why not just divorce her and let her mom and dad do the caring for her?' I cannot say I would blame him for wanting to move on with his life after so many years but why not let her folks take care of her when they want to? There is no other plausible explanation than monetary. The 'her true wishes' thing is pure crap. No one her age (when this occured) says "Don't keep me on life support" and means it. It's just too far of a far gone conclusion for someone at that age. It's just conversation. It's meant for when you're 80, not in your twenties. I said far too much in my twenties that I had no clue about. God forbid it's all taken as written in stone. This may then be my last post if so.

[katnip]

Senate President Jim King agreed Monday to let lawmakers intervene in the fight over a brain-damaged woman whose feeding tube was removed last week by her husband's order.

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031020/APN/310200859

Maybe it was my Email asking him to be a Hero?

[MarMema]

It's not money either because her parents have repeatedly offered to give him all of it.

It's his desire to kill and advance the death culture.

If you look at the wives of people like Hugh Finn, Michael Martin and others, they have gone completely waist deep into the culture and are now out there promoting things like organ harvesting from the brain damaged.

Once the spouse gets somewhat interested in killing off a disabled family member, they enter the world of darkness and it completely corrupts them. That's my belief.

[Catspaw]

Florida lawmakers were moving Monday to consider intervening in the case of a severely brain-damaged woman whose feeding tube was removed last week by her husband's order.

The Florida House scheduled a Monday night session to take up the issue. In the Senate, President Jim King said he will propose legislation that would give Gov. Jeb Bush the authority to order the feeding tube be reinserted to keep Terri Schiavo alive.

In this update, it's a lot more clear why the session is being held. The last one wasn't clear at all.