Thanks you two and also the others who posted the news as soon as t was available.
Time for me to go to bed, it is after 1am and I was up at 5:30am this morning.
Tomorrow is another day. Another day to make phone calls and send e-mails.
Goes in every communique now - Florida the Roe v Wade of Forced Euthanasia.
Any bets that Greer denied everything in the same way the the Appellet Court is doing, they deny the motions with no comments. I think if they do it that way, you can't appeal.
Will be interesting tomorrow to see what Greer does with the DCF. Bet he tels them to "stuff it" also. I think it was Wampus who said, "Full Greer Ahead" So true, so sad.
Not jsut sad but I'm mad also.
Many thanks all my fellow freepers. I bump it while you are sleeping you know...
Gotta go back and read Pegitas Prayer one more time. Her last one still suits the situation.
'night all
Thank you for calling the legislatures! Every call counts!
goodnight, rest well!
Save Terri Schiavo's Life says Fédération Internationale des Associations Médicales Catholiques
ROME, March 9 /Christian Wire Service/ -- Press Released Statement on Terri Schindler-Schiavo from Fédération Internationale des Associations Médicales Catholiques -- World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations:
Save Terri's Life
Terri Schindler-Schiavo is condemned to die of starvation and dehydration unless a new court decision intervenes.
She is not guilty of any crime, except to be a burden for her husband and for a selfish society. She is not even clinically in a permanent vegetative state, but she has been refused a re-examination of her clinical condition.
The legal basis for this inhuman decision is that she allegedly had once expressed the wish not to be fed "artificially". However, her parents and siblings contend that this is not her will and that she, in fact, would follow the clear teaching of the Catholic Church about assisted nutrition and hydration. They raise the possibility that her husband and legal guardian has manifestedly abused her.
However, the real core of the problem is the attempt to decide about the right to life of a human being, not on the basis of her/his personal dignity, but on an external evaluation of the quality of life.
The World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations is deeply concerned for the possible consequences of such a precedent setting decision in the United States system of law. In fact, if Terri, an innocent person, can be condemmed to death, every person whose life will be considered of insufficient "quality" by a guardian or the court will be in danger of euthanasia performed by withdrawal of basic and ordinary care.
The importance of this case goes beyond this deplorable circumstance. It will open the floodgates to euthanasia in the United States, at all ages, without even a legislative decision.
The World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations, aware of the risks of this decision for both society and the future of the medical profession, strongly appeals to the United States authorities to react immediately and effectively to save Terri's life and to avoid the inevitable consequences.
The World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations appeals to the Bishops of the United States to mobilize every resource and influence of the Catholic Church to counteract this impending tragedy.
Following the teaching of Pope John Paul II and the evidence of medical sciences, we believe that no human being, including those in the permanent vegetative state, can be denied the respect due to a human person by provision of food and water, without which any person, regardless of his/her state of health, would be condemned to death.
Such a perversion of medicine will be the source of discrimination against other human beings, with enormous risks for human rights and democracy.
Gian Luigi Gigli, M.D. Rome, 6 March, 2005
President of FIAMC
Contact: François Blin, MD, Secretary General of Fédération Internationale des Associations Médicales Catholiques, 33 1 34685576, frblin@club-internet.fr; or Cristine More, Catholic Medical Association (USA), 781-455-0259
http://www.earnedmedia.org/cogb0309.htm