I missed it, do you recall the highlights?
Posted on 03/10/2005 12:22:56 PM PST by amdgmary
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- A judge ruled Thursday that the state's social services agency cannot delay the removal of the feeding tube keeping brain-damaged Terri Schiavo alive.
The Department of Children & Families had asked for a 60-day delay in the removal of the feeding tube, now scheduled March 18. The agency said it wanted time to investigate allegations of abuse and neglect by the woman's husband, Michael Schiavo.
But Circuit Judge George W. Greer ruled that the agency's attempt to get involved at this point was inappropriate and "appears to be brought for the purpose of circumventing the court's final judgment ... in violation of the separation of powers doctrine."
Michael Schiavo's attorney had criticized the last-minute attempt by DCF to get involved, saying that it was engineered by Gov. Jeb Bush and others in the state government who support the plight of her parents who are trying to keep her alive.
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Michael Schiavo has gotten a court order to remove the feeding tube, contending that his wife told him she wouldn't want to be kept alive artificially. A 1990 heart attack cut off oxygen to her brain for five minutes, leaving her in what the court has ruled is a vegetative state with no consciousness. She breathes on her own but depends on a tube in her abdomen for food and water.
But her parents doubt she had those end-of-life wishes and are trying to block removal of the feeding tube.
The judge's ruling was another major blow to Bob and Mary Schindler, who have fought their son-in-law in court for nearly seven years over their daughter's fate. They dispute that she is in a persistent vegetative state, saying she laughs, cries, interacts with them and tries to speak when they visit her at her hospice.
The DCF said it wanted to investigate accusations against Miachel Schiavo - who is her legal guaridan - that included denying his wife some medical treatment and therapy, isolating her in her room with the blinds closed, failing to fix her broken wheelchair and failing to file timely guardianship plans.
In his order, Greer noted that those and many other allegations have been investigated in the past and failed to yield any evidence of abuse and neglect by Michael Schiavo.
Other than trying to appeal judge's decisions that have gone against them this week, the Schindlers will look again to the state Legislature and perhaps the U.S. Congress for help. Both bodies have bills in the works that lawmakers say could save Terri Schiavo's life.
In Tallahassee Wednesday, a House committee approved a bill requiring doctors to provide nutrition and hydration to incapacitated patients who didn't leave an advance directive. It still needs approval from two more committees before facing the full House.
Bush, who has said he would do anything within his power to save Terri Schiavo, supports the bill.
The governor in October 2003 pushed a law through the Legislature authorizing him to resume the woman's artificial feedings six days after the court stopped them. The law subsequently was ruled unconstitutional by the state Supreme Court.
On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon and U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez, both Florida Republicans, introduced legislation in Washington that could give the Schindlers access to federal courts in the effort to save their daughter's life. Their bill requires that incapacitated people who don't leave advance directives have attorneys appointed to give the case a full review before artificial life support is terminated.
There is NO plug to pull. By the way, as one of our regular posters so aptly put it yesterday, "DID YOU HAVE YOUR LIFE SUPPORT FOR BREAKFAST TODAY?"!!
I forgot to add that the court has ruled that Terri will be buried in Pa so she'll still have a grave. Cremation has nothing to do with it except that it destroys evidence.
"Dear lady, you are entitled to your opinion"
You are absolutely right, I am.
Wolfson is PRO-DEATH. He was appoint by TA DA - GREER!! Get your brain in gear!!
THANK YOU!
"the court has ruled that Terri will be buried in Pa"
If this is correct and her cremated remains will be buried in PA, that's fine, just as long as it's not in Florida.
You'll get no argument from me on that score. Opinions are many and everyone has a right to them.
None of her family lives in Pa.
Who cares if her grave becomes a shrine? She'd be dead! You mean she told her husband "I don't want a grave that will be a shrine..." ?
I agree, you are entitled to be Off the Wall. And we are entitled to disagree with you. Frankly, your an agitator. I have not once yet seen you post anything that even remotely offers anything intelligent about this case.
See, it is comments like that, that make it clear that to you- this is not about people's "right to die."
It is about your intolerance for those inconvenient. SO intolerant that death and good riddance is your means of dealing with it.
Shame.....
Must be a miserable and sad existence for you.
eccentric
DOn't even waste your breath, er.. I mean typing energy..
They can't even get the facts straight.
"4 Years of therapy"
I have already posted the transcripts that prove that lie wrong -- TWICE!
"Must be a miserable and sad existence for you."
Actually, I think that you and the other Terri supporters' main existence are these Terri threads. I think you are on them 24/7 and have been for 2 years. I believe it is you that has no existence other than these threads, and that is sad and miserable. You really need to get a life, other than living through Terri's.
"have not once yet seen you post anything that even remotely offers anything intelligent about this case."
You wouldn't know intelligence (or perhaps I should say rationality) if it slapped you up against your face as regards the Schiavo case.
LOL!!!
See-- YOU ASSUME WAY TOO MUCH!
LOL!!
"None of her family lives in Pa."
That's the point.
I missed it, do you recall the highlights?
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