"I think we all would have withdrawn a feeding tube in her case — until this," says Laurence O'Connell, director of Park Ridge Center for Health, Faith and Ethics in Chicago. The pope's stance is "a stunner, to say the least." A.Mod: Couldn't an article in today's USA TODAY that our nation's leading bio-ethicists regard as A STUNNER, be considered FRONT PAGE NEWS?
I think this would indeed be good news for Terri, who is a DEVOUT Catholic.
So even if Michael Schiavo's 1999 recollection is correct that Terri once said she preferred death over an inconspicuous feeding tube under her clothing, Terri would now honor the instructions of the Pope, and order her suicide cancelled.
The biggest problem now however, is that her adulterous husband [he asked Jodi Centonze to marry him in 1996 and she said YES] is currently in the process of killing Terri by other means, and cutting off her parents and other outsiders from witnessing the event. Terri has probably no more than 10-20 days left on this earth, IMHO.
since 1990, when the Supreme Court ruled that feeding tubes are medical treatments "never intended to keep someone alive forever in an unconscious state" Hey Supreme Court: Does this look like "someone being kept alive forever in an unconscious state"?
Or for that matter, does this look like a permanent vegetative state?.
From "Terri Big Eyes" video available at www.terrisfight.org
Terri starts out apparently asleep. A doctor wakes her to start his tests.
Doctor: Terri. Open your eyes up...
Terri: (Startled at hearing her name. She starts moving her mouth and fluttering her eyes, like a person who is just waking up)
Doctor: Open your eyes, Terri open your eyes
Terri: (slowly at first, Terri struggles to open her eyes, then turns toward the doctor, and opens her eyes a normal amount)
Doctor: There you go, good.
Terri: (then, either to show off(?) or wanting to perform well, she leans further forward toward the doctor, looks straight at him and opens her eyes as WIDE AS SHE CAN. Note the WRINKLES ACROSS HER FOREHEAD caused by her also RAISING HER EYEBROWS as high as possible )
Doctor: [now obviously impressed] GOOD!! GOOD JOB! GOOD JOB YOUNG LADY! Good Job.