Posted on 09/28/2004 2:29:10 AM PDT by treowth
A right to live ... not to be killed http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40641
If I didn't know better, I'd think the heavens are crying. Perhaps they are. Florida is being inundated as the progression of hurricanes continues its destruction.
Ironically, while media focus on evacuations aimed at saving lives, the Florida Supreme Court ruled 7-0 last week, that a helpless young Florida woman should die. Her name is Terri Schindler-Schiavo.
I take that back. Not just die. Be killed.
That is what's involved when a person is denied food and water. That person will die a prolonged, painful and horrible death. According to the black-robed justices of the Florida high court, that's exactly what should happen to Terri.
It will be done for a sole and not-so-subtle reason: to cause her to die.
Memo to the court: If this murder isn't prevented, Terri's blood will be on your hands.
The background. Terri Schiavo is brain damaged, but she is awake and sleeps. She breathes on her own, attempts to speak and recognizes family members when they're allowed to see her. That happens only rarely because her husband refuses to allow Terri's parents and siblings to visit. When they do, a policeman is present.
In 1990, Terri suffered some kind of trauma. Reports that it was a blood-chemical imbalance or eating disorder are inaccurate. No one knows what happened that night in her apartment with her husband, but oxygen to her brain was cut off for a short period causing brain damage. She was 26.
Terri was hospitalized, had some therapy and seemed to be improving. There were successful malpractice lawsuits with a $1.4 million verdict for her and $600,000 for her husband, Michael. He is her legal guardian.
Then the problems started. He moved her to another facility for only custodial care and began to keep her family away.
Terri didn't get the recommended physical therapy nor the routine physical care any patient should have – dental, antibiotics when sick, and physical therapy to get her off the feeding tube and reanimate her limbs.
Terri's parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, grievously unhappy at what was happening to their child, sought help from the courts. For the next 14 years, Michael battled them, consuming their lives and nearly bankrupting them.
Michael Schiavo used the settlement money, which was supposed to be used for Terri's rehabilitation, for his legal fight to keep the family out and have Terri's feeding tube pulled. He claims she wouldn't want to live this way but there's no clear proof and no written intention.
He refuses to allow Terri's parents to become her guardians. He refused to allow her to receive Communion. He refuses to allow Terri to be divorced from him despite the fact that he's lived with another woman for nine years and has two children by her. He presents himself to the media as a loving husband.
A lower court order last fall ordered the feeding tube removed – it was. Six days later, the legislature passed a law, called "Terri's Law," giving Gov. Jeb Bush the authority to order the tube reinstated. He did, it was, Terri survived. Michael challenged it and appealed to the high court.
That court didn't rule on the morality of the situation, nor the humanity. They were clinically and coldly legalistic and it appears, miffed that a judicial decision was challenged.
Their decision was to protect their turf and Terri be damned, or perhaps I should say, be dead.
Here's what Chief Justice Barbara Pariente said: "It is without question an invasion of the authority of the judicial branch for the Legislature to pass a law that allows the executive branch to interfere with the final judicial determination in a case." (My emphasis.)
Silly me. I thought the legislature was supposed to make laws and the judiciary to interpret. I never realized courts were infallible.
The justices said it was simply an issue of separation of powers. Despite family grief, Justice Pariente said, "But our hearts are not the law, what is in the Constitution always must prevail over emotion."
So the judges ruled Terri Schiavo be killed. A doctor or nurse, who is supposed to protect life, will take a step to kill a helpless patient.
The decision is not only immoral on the face of it, it is doubly so because it directs others to carry out a death sentence without due cause on a helpless, innocent human being.
If this comes to pass, the court, the lawyers, the American Civil Liberties Union and Michael Schiavo will be responsible for Terri's death and also the deaths of others with cognitive disabilities who will be killed the same way as their families and lawyers use this case as precedent. Every living person, able or not, should be afraid. Very afraid. We're all in danger from this immoral and illegal decision, which makes it easier for someone to decide who lives or dies, when, and under what conditions.
Gov. Bush has 10 days to ask for a rehearing or to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Terri Schiavo lives – day to day. She has survived a mysterious injury, 14 years of medical neglect and mistreatment, the actions of her husband and the backhand of the courts. On that basis alone, she deserves to live.
God help her.
And help us too, if we allow her murder to take place.
For full details about Terri Schindler-Schiavo, and the timeline of this case, go to the family website - www.terrisfight.org. Barbara Simpson, "The Babe in the Bunker" as she's known to her KSFO 560 radio talk-show audience in San Francisco, has a 20-year radio, television and newspaper career in the Bay Area and Los Angeles.
Larry King had a really excellent interview with the parents last night, interspersed with video of Terri. I think they really got their point across. LK kept showing video of Michael talking about how Terri wanted to die, and then let the parents rebut it.
The callers seemed mostly very upset at what was being done to Terri.
good article.
In what countries do the peoples courts allow 'Mercy' of over rule the 'letter of the law while keeping the 'spirit' of THE LAW?
Mercy, Righteousness,....Human JUSTICE..........we are NOT stones or machines.....MERCY.
..............Amerika's JUDGES of STONE.....?
I didn't think there were people more heartless than Michael S, but apparently there are. They're called judges.
This is typical liberal agenda: kill off those who are "a burden" to society. Rubbish!
Conscience is the quiet voice of God. That voice is being shouted down by the Devil.
In other FL court news, the "Choose Life" license plates were ruled unconstitutional, as the option of a "Choose Death" plate was not offered.
None are seperate from G-d's Authority. But the Court is right. This is all about seperation of powers. And damn the Executive in Florida if they don't keep to their duty to their own Executive Power and REFUSE to carry out the Court's bad order. That is the Court has DARED the Executive to keep G-d's Law by not allowing an innocent to be murdered.
As Andrew Jackson said "What armies does the Court have?"
The Terri Schiavo struggle is but one more manifestation of the ongoing clash of orthodoxies taking place throughout America and the Western civilized nations.
On the pro-life side are those who believe in the sanctity of life ethic, which is a spiritual, religious concept based upon the belief that mankind was created by God; that we each have a spirit; and
that God has declared that each of us are of value to Him. Thus our right to life is inalienable and man does not have a right to deprive individuals or groups of individuals, as with the unborn for example, of their God endowed right to life.
On the other side is the belief that man is the product of a chance collision between chemicals, matter, etc., and that he is therefore, just another animal. And if he is just another animal, then it makes sense to humanists and other unbelievers that the population of mankind can and should be 'managed'. Utilitarian 'management' techniques are such things as birth control, abortion, euthanasia, sterilization, invitro fertilization, suicide, infanticide, and cloning.
Those who believe that religion and politics should be kept separate from each other are wrong. Politics, culture, and laws are but outgrowths of what we 'believe to be true of life' {our worldview}. To remove the {religious} belief is to destroy the foundation of culture, politics, and law. And here in America where our traditional worldview is Christian-Judao, the eradication of it is leading inexhorably to the destruction of our God endowed right to life.
The pro-death worldviewers have already succeeded in depriving the unborn of their inalienable right to life. Now they are seeking to spread coverage of their pro-death ethic to the other end of the spectrum........to those who are "born".
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Or maybe those FSC robed devils think that Terry is less equal???????
In spite of Justice Pariente's later invocation of the Constitution it is obvious from this statement that she 1. doesn't understand it. or 2. feels free to sh#t on it. People like Pariente are more dangerous to our republic than Islamonazis.
Regime change in the courts. Impeach activist judges!
The 'Iron Curtain and Robes' of Marxist materialism.
:-(
(Where's the beef,....MERCY?)
You know that millions of unborn babies have the right to die too...or is there some other point in their deaths besides the convenience of those who are capable of making decisions for them?
"This is typical liberal agenda; kill off those who are(in our atheistic minds)"a burden" to society.(then feed and coddle those who really ARE a burden to society)
Agreed-rubbish.
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