Law to keep brain-damaged woman alive ruled unconstitutional (Baird Rules Against Terri)

Sun-Sentinel ^ | May 6 2004

[nickcarraway]

TAMPA -- A judge ruled Thursday that the law pushed by Gov. Jeb Bush to keep a severely brain damaged woman alive is unconstitutional. The governor's office filed an immediate appeal.

[BykrBayb]

He was very interested in Terri's plight. I asked him for his email address and have sent him articles. Hope he and his friends get involved......because he asked how he could help.

Cha-ching! You scored big!

[floriduh voter]

MORE COVERAGE FOR TERRI:

Judge Strikes Down "Terri's Law" http://www.reclaimamerica.org/Pages/News/newspage.asp?story=1708

[lakey]

Isolation sure sounds like abuse to me.

Michael is cruel beyond words. To think that he can walk around, feel the warmth of the sun on his skin, and not have one iota of caring for this frail, bedridden woman he calls his wife, is despicable.

But Felos is mastermind. He's a demon from Hell.

[Theodore R.]

Then she qualifies as a "cafeteria Catholic" like so many.

[windchime]

Bump!

[KDubRN]

A person who is deemed to fit the legal definition of Persistent Vegetative State (PVS) may be deprived of food and hydration, under certain circumstances. The law clearly defines the legal definition of PVS.

Truly, PVS is a subjective diagnosis, based on a physician's experience, beliefs, and morals. Terri neither fits Florida definition, nor the more controversial medical definition. There are no difinitive tests to distinguish PVS from either locked in syndrome or minimally conscious state.
While the law takes steps to define a medical entity, we end up with Terri Schiavo situations. Lawmakers have no business defining any medical condition. They are practicing medicine without a license. Anybody comfortable with a politician defining diabetes? How about HIE? They hijacked my profession.

[KDubRN]

There is no life support. There is no plug to pull.
Her parents want her alive. The husband wants her dead.
She is not brain dead. She is brain injured.

[KDubRN]

Has anyone ever seen this rather revealing Florida statute?

Yes, the goofballs voted it in during 2002 elections.

[Wampus SC]

"WHAT'S THE DAMN DIFFERENCE?"

The Taliban were more upfront about what they were doing.

"FLORIDA SUCKS"

That reminds me... I've added a few more of those vanity plates.
http://bellsouthpwp.net/w/a/wampus_swamp/flplates/flplates.html

[phenn]

Schiavo may not wait until final say:
http://news.tbo.com/news/MGA9YWK1ZTD.html
``It's disgusting to think they could take action to cause her death during the pendency of the appeal,'' Connor said. ``It shows the goal is not to be governed by the rule of law but to facilitate the agenda they have that Terri should die.''

[windchime]

Bump!

[phenn]

Brilliant.

[mickie]

"Schiavo may not wait until final say."

This just sends chills down my spine. Is it possible that these evildoers can win!

Please dear God protect our dear Terri form the forces of evil.

[pickyourpoison]

prayers

[Wheee The People]

While our passion is well placed, it can tend to make us look like lunatics...

You said it, not me...

[floriduh voter]

THIS MAY BE NEW NEWS:

EXCERPT: Terri Schiavo's Parents, Pro-Life Groups Respond to Judge's Decision Clearwater, FL (LifeNews.com) -- The parents of Terri Schiavo, and pro-life organizations that have been closely monitoring the years-long legal battle they have waged to save Terri's life, are deeply disappointed by a local judge's ruling striking down a law that allowed Terri's feeding tube to remain in place. On Thursday, Circuit Court Judge Douglas Baird struck down Terri's Law, the measure approved by the Florida state legislature that authorized Governor Jeb Bush to ask doctors to reinsert the feeding tube that provided Terri with food and water. "These Pinellas County judges have displayed an utterly cavalier attitude and a complete disregard for the rule of law," Terri's father Robert Schindler said in reaction to Baird's decision. "They are aiding and abetting Michael Schiavo in his continuing crimes against Terri and this current order is nothing more than an unjust killing of a young woman who has demonstrated time and again that she very much wants to live." The American Center for Law and Justice, a pro-life law firm which has been helping Terri's parents in the legal battle, also expressed its disappointment and disagreed with Judge Baird that the law violated the separation of powers doctrine.

rest of story? http://www.lifenews.com/bio288.html

[Lauren BaRecall]

Responding to your ping, re "Now can she rest in peace and join her heavenly Father rather living in this earthly hell?":

I don't want to sound like I never get one of my buttons pushed, but usually when I read a comment this outrageous, and mentally unbalanced, I usually ignore...unless I can think of something *really* funny! :o)

In the meantime, maybe we should pity this WheeWhee guy. He may have watched Elmer Gantry too many times. (I hear it's a disease.)

[nickcarraway]

BUMP for Monday

[BykrBayb]

While our passion is well placed, it can tend to make us look like lunatics...

You said it, not me...

What I said was "While our passion is well placed, it can tend to make us look like lunatics to anyone who doesn't already know most of the story;"

I apologize for not including you in my original statement. I should have added "unless they, themselves, are lunatics."

[Lauren BaRecall]

I wish beyond all things that the church would grant this poor girl an annulment.

As a Catholic, I state that if Terri should be murdered, Terri's bishop would probably marry the HINO and his concubine in the cathedral.