>>Jim King's legacy is a law that is unconstitutional because it's contradictory and violation of the Florida law that says euthanasia is illegal.<<
I may be waaaaaaaay out in left field on this, but I think it's unconstitutional because it's a violation of privacy. There is a statutory definition of PVS. They can use that definition to kill you. But nowhere in any of those statutes does it defer to a doctor's opinion or a diagnosis. So....
Instead of your doctor having discretion over your care, diagnosis, prognosis, etc. - the state does.
Doesn't this encroach on my constitutionally guaranteed right to privacy? How can the state possibly practice medicine without a license?
If I fit the statutory definition of PVS but my doctor has diagnosed me to be in some other condition, my life is in danger because of these misguided laws and because the state is poking its $&@%$ into my personal affairs.
Why do the critics of Jeb and Terri's Law always use this argument but never apply the same concept to how the state has violated her Constitutionally guaranteed right to privacy?
Good points!
Sounds right to me!
I just finished reading something about Felos from 2001. He's had his hooks in Florida for a long time! He is very confused in his spiritual ideas and for an apparent liberal is mixing his religion into what he thinks government should do but golly don't let a conservative even breath that thought.
I do think that the double standard is very obvious when it comes to Terri. Just think about Chris Reeve, why wasn't Felos tuning in to his spiritual side while he was alive? Chris's mental capacity was not diminished as far as I know and I think that's why. I'm really beginning to wonder if any of Felos clients were 'not' vulnerable women!
I think I'd get a chill down my spine if I ever ran into him in person.
Bump.