Posted on 02/02/2005 4:12:09 AM PST by amdgmary
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How is the governor supposed to do that? Not trying to be argumentative, but he's not a king, and she's not a death row inmate who he can pardon.
She's not committed a crime, yet the government is sentencing her to death. Welcome to America.
People are grasping at improbable straws.
perhaps mother nature has sentenced this poor woman to death.
The article tells how he is to do it.
Take her into protective custody because she is being denied due process since others are attempting to take her life.
The major point remains. She is not sick and dying. If she were sick and dying, they would not need to remove the feeding tubes.
She is not receiving an IV....it is food and water entering via those tubes and she digests quite well.
For someone to die after being deprived of food and water is not a sign of an extraordinary illness.....you would die if the same were done to you.
Here you go,
http://flsenate.gov/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0415/SEC1051.HTM&Title=-%3E2004-%3ECh0415-%3ESection%201051#0415.1051
The Gov is the head of the Department of Children and Families as well as Adult Protective Services. He can do this.
The government has NOT sentenced her to death. The court merely ruled that Jeb Bush as governor has no right to overrule the wishes of the surviving spouse. This is legal and as it should be.
You are crabbing that the government sentenced her to death but you want the government to override the closest living relative. You can't have it both ways. Either the government has no right in this matter or it can interfere in any case such as this.
Now, the husband may be a jerk, I don't know. I don't know if Terri can recover from her illness or not because, unlike some of you on FR, I am not a doctor. It seems most of the FR people must be doctors because they seem to know so much about her condition, more so than her attending Doctors.
This is a matter of spousal rights vs government, and as much as I dislike seeing someone die, it is up to her husband and not the government to decide this.
I hope if I get in this shape a relative decides for me and not the government. We can't pick and choose the cases and we can't do it by group decision. It is not our decision.
Praying and trusting that Jeb will do this, after all his brother is seeking a pro-life culture, what better way to show he means it?
It's not a matter of spousal rights or of government. Her inalienable right to life cannot be revoked by either her husband or the government, and it is the mandate of our Constitution that the government must protect that right. The SC has failed to do this, let us hope that Gov. Bush does not.
Bump!
The feeding tube isn't even hooked up all the time.. It just hooks up to a port when feeding time comes. She isn't always in bed and sits in a chair, etc. During the April 1st investigation by AHCA and during police investigation these "caregivers" put her in front of a TV. They refuse to giver her rehab or therapy per Michael's orders and they give the appearance that they are trying the help Terri to investigators. They are deceiving people.
Her own parents/siblings want to make sure she gets the help she deserves and the rights of which she are given under Florida law in regards to being afforded being brought to capacity at the earliest possible time. Your logic is to the dogs.
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Begging for others to act to save Terri as well. She needs protection ASAP:
11:01am feb 2, 2005
Mel Martinez Office
202-224-3041
Can I hold please.. Yes
Brianne.
I told her that I wanted to know what Mel Martinez is
doing in regards to the Terri Schiavo matter.
She said they haven't formulated anything yet in this
regard.
I told her that I voted for Mel Martinez and I would like to be contacted back as to what is being done, etc. because someone contacted the FL Senator Tom Lee and was told that this was a federal matter.. that I do believe it to be a federal matter as well because the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, Inc. gets funding for Medicare/Medicaid and yet they are have in the past tried to starve/dehydrate Terri to death (2nd time being in Oct. 15, 2003) which is against the law plus that the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, Inc. is connected with the Veterans Administration as well. I also told her that I had sent an evidence CD of crimes against Terri to the Tampa Field Office of the FBI and the US DOJ Disability Rights Section but that I never got any response back and that I would like to know why. I said that I believe that the Florida governor needs to step in and that the Federal authorities need to step in as well. She took down my name and number and said someone would be getting back to me. I said thanks.
She will make sure someone will get back to me in regards to my concerns.
Feeding tubes by their very nature are only hooked up at feeding times. "Sitting in a chair" is no indication of a nonvegetative state. You can prop anybody up in a chair with enough pillows or supportive devices unless rigor mortis has set in. Therapy at this stage would be purely maintenance to prevent contractures. The only thing that would improve her condition is a miracle, and if God hasn't chosen to do this in the past however many years, I doubt he'll do it now.
You remind me of an episode in my PT days - we had an order on a patient in the MICU who hadn't been out of bed in years. The nurses were hot to get her up and moving, but with her knees and hips basically stuck in 90-degree contractures, walking wasn't an option. We were attempting to splint her legs to slowly increase their movement by stretching them out.
Anyway, I came up to the MICU one day, and one of the nurses was beaming, stating they'd walked "Mary." As an aside, "Mary" weighed about 89 pounds. When I asked how many nurses it took to take her for her "walk" they told me "6." (of which one or two managed the equipment). I didn't have the heart to ask her who really got the exercise during this gambit (hint - it wasn't "Mary").
I remind you? You know where you can go.
He could send the law enforcement people he directs ... but the governor has gotten all the mileage out of Terri alive that he could. Now he'll no doubt get mileage out of her death. I'm sorry, but I didn't see actions by a man or a legislature that really values Terri as a human being, only as a focal point for an issue. [Florida is a state still too dangerous to enter or allow any of my family to even drive through on their way somewhere else!]
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