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Schiavo case puts human dignity on trial
Rocky Mountain News ^ | March 5, 2005 | Douglas Groothuis

Posted on 03/05/2005 3:40:34 PM PST by AliVeritas

In a hospice in Pinellas Park, Fla., lives a young woman who is quite alive, yet quite unlike most of you reading these words. Since 1990, she has not been able to swallow or to communicate as most of us do.

However, she smiles and cries, kisses her parents and utters a few simple words. She is not on life support. She receives nutrition through a tube instead of chewing and swallowing. She is not in a coma. She is not in a persistent vegetative state as defined by Florida law.

She is much loved by her loyal parents and other relatives. She is a living human being, one who needs more care than most, but a human being nonetheless. (According to her parents, she left no instructions on how she would want to be treated in such a situation and does not now want to die.)

Yet Michael Schiavo wants his wife, Terri, dead. After winning a considerable amount of money through malpractice lawsuits, Schiavo did not invest the money in his injured wife's rehabilitation, as he had promised.

Instead, he paid lawyers to have her feeding tube removed and so kill her by the slow and awful death of starvation. If his plan succeeds, Michael Schiavo will finally have his way with a wife he long ago abandoned. He now lives with another woman who has had two children by him. Yet he unjustly holds legal authority over Terri's life and death.

(Excerpt) Read more at rockymountainnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: assaultandbattery; coldbloodedmurder; conspiracyinmurder; crueltorture; euthanasia; noteuthanasia; pleasesaveterri; schiavo; spousalabuse; terrischiavo; terrisfight; wifebeating
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To: johnb838

"euthanazi

Very good. When in doubt, hurl personal insults. Let me think of one for you. On the other hand, no, I won't stoop to your level.


41 posted on 03/05/2005 9:41:56 PM PST by flaglady47
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To: Republic

"where affidavits abound testifying to Michael's breathtakingly horrific treatment of Terri the moment the money ( 1.2 million) was in his hands."

None, and I mean absolutely none of the 34 courts this case has been before at one time or another, concur with your viewpoint. So therefore, the courts, including the Supreme Court of the U.S., all the lawyers, social services, the doctors, nurses, who have attested to Terri's treatment, the husband's behavior, her physical state, the condition of her cerebral cortex, in court, upon which the judges made their rulings, must, according to you, be liars. All of them. Get real.





42 posted on 03/05/2005 10:09:03 PM PST by flaglady47
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To: flaglady47

It happens flaglady. I know well from personal experience; particularly when the court has an agenda and/or they want to protect the erroneous decisions of their own.


43 posted on 03/05/2005 10:17:01 PM PST by TAdams8591 (The call you make may be the one that saves Terri's life!!!!!!)
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To: TAdams8591

"I guess you and your sister hold different opinions about Terri."

Yeah, all of them are liars. Must be, because you say so.


44 posted on 03/05/2005 10:25:12 PM PST by flaglady47
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To: TAdams8591

"It happens flaglady. I know well from personal experience; particularly when the court has an agenda and/or they want to protect the erroneous decisions of their own."

Had the wrong quote. Here's the one I was responding to in my post to you.


45 posted on 03/05/2005 10:26:28 PM PST by flaglady47
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To: flaglady47

Where did YOU get THAT quote?????????? It certainly isn't mine.


46 posted on 03/05/2005 10:27:55 PM PST by TAdams8591 (The call you make may be the one that saves Terri's life!!!!!!)
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To: flaglady47

Oh my golly! Here's your warm and cuddly pro-life self. How are things?


47 posted on 03/05/2005 10:55:06 PM PST by DJ MacWoW ("Are you cops? FBI" bad guy, "I'm currently unemployed" Tony Almeida of 24)
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To: flaglady47
I have a suggestion to end this ping-pong match once and
for all. How about having your sister visit Terri -
and take pictures while there. As a matter of fact, if
you plan to visit in the near future, you could join her.

Then, once and for all, you could set us all straight
with the true facts.

How about it?
48 posted on 03/06/2005 12:26:34 AM PST by AnimalLover ( ((Are there special rules and regulations for the big guys?)))
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To: AnimalLover

"How about it?"

You're silly and hysterical. End of conversation. Tired and your ridiculous comments make me even more tired. The end of March can't come soon enough so that all these Schiavo threads will disappear. So you have about two more weeks to be on the attack. Have fun and good nite.


49 posted on 03/06/2005 12:34:53 AM PST by flaglady47
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To: Pegita

Barbara Weller's personal account of her visit with Terri is more Truth/Proof of Terri's real ability to respond to those around her.

How can anyone believe Terri should be Starved to Death? She really is on death row. I'm so sad about this.


50 posted on 03/06/2005 3:09:54 AM PST by Pepper777 (HINO - Why won't you LET the MEDIA SEE Terri?)
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To: flaglady47

This has been in front of 34 courts now?

Wow! Where'd you get that little 'tidbit of truth'?


51 posted on 03/06/2005 3:41:07 AM PST by phenn (http://www.terrisfight.org)
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To: flaglady47

Terri should die because you're tired of these threads?

Wouldn't an easier solution be that you just take your drama somewhere else?


52 posted on 03/06/2005 3:42:39 AM PST by phenn (http://www.terrisfight.org)
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To: AliVeritas

Doug Groothuis was interim Pastor at my church this
past year. He is a superb individual and magnificent teacher.

His involvement is most encouraging!!

Lord, multiply his efforts on Terri's behalf.


53 posted on 03/06/2005 11:16:09 AM PST by Lesforlife ("For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb . . ." Psalm 139:13)
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To: phenn

"Wouldn't an easier solution be that you just take your drama somewhere else?"

To save my sanity, yes I should get off these Schiavo threads. However, that would feed right into your hands, wouldn't it. You and the other Schiavo supporters. Chase everyone off of these threads, so that there is no other viewpoint than yours. A monologue. The purpose of these kind of forums is to have healthy debate and expressions of different points of view. A one-sided only debate or expression of views is no debate at all.


54 posted on 03/06/2005 2:43:57 PM PST by flaglady47
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To: flaglady47

Chased off the threads, huh? Go ahead and deny that you're not posting anytime you want.


55 posted on 03/06/2005 11:09:28 PM PST by Wampus SC
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To: flaglady47; phenn; AnimalLover
Take a good look at the woman front and center.

Here she is again on our far right. She isn't laughing now.


56 posted on 03/06/2005 11:10:57 PM PST by BykrBayb (5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 am EDT, until she's safe. http://www.terrisfight.org)
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To: flaglady47
"To save my sanity, yes I should get off these Schiavo threads. "

Interesting. That would mean that while you're on them, it's unsaved. ;)
57 posted on 03/06/2005 11:13:56 PM PST by Wampus SC (Ooblegackin' gleeplezorkin' cratisfrants!)
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To: Wampus SC

That could be dangerous. How many insane people were guests of the T4 Program?


58 posted on 03/06/2005 11:18:15 PM PST by BykrBayb (5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 am EDT, until she's safe. http://www.terrisfight.org)
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To: BykrBayb
"That could be dangerous. How many insane people were guests of the T4 Program?"

Thousands and thousands of them -- excluding the insane people who were running the T4 program.
59 posted on 03/06/2005 11:21:05 PM PST by Wampus SC
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To: flaglady47
The purpose of these kind of forums is to have healthy debate

Unfortunately, it's not been a healthy debate.

60 posted on 03/06/2005 11:32:51 PM PST by DJ MacWoW ("Are you cops? FBI" bad guy, "I'm currently unemployed" Tony Almeida of 24)
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