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.
Annie
Tel your boss you have been found out.
Please cease posting your lies.
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How were passing comments from Terri supposedly heard by her conflict of interest husband and his family CLEAR AND CONVINCING evidence that Terri wanted to be STARVED TO DEATH?
These judges should be tried for crimes against humanity. We did it for Nazis profiting on Jewish sin
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Please quit posting your baloney.
Are you being paid by Felos or Greer? You are way too obvious.
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This case is not about right-to-die which is also wrong. Suicide is wrong. You can always start ANOTHER thread about right-to-die.
But this case is about right-to-KILL.
Many people live with a feeding tube, including children. Nourishment and hydration are natural. Terri needs nourishment and hydration, just like you and me.
And it's just that simple.
Many people live with a feeding tube, including children. Nourishment and hydration are natural. Terri needs nourishment and hydration, just like you and me.
And it's just that simple.
No it isn't. None of them are in a persistent vegetative state. They all have brains that are not destroyed.
Schiavo picked Felos because of his track record. Felos beliefs have a great deal to do with this case.
Euthanasia is ASSISTING someone in ending their life.
Ok. So starving someone is murder?
It is called not using any artificial means to keep someone alive,
I have no problem with that. What I do have a problem with is Judge Greer ordering that no one feed Terri by mouth. Ordering it twice. She has been fed jello and swallowed it. I was told by another Freeper who agrees with you that that was irrelevant. But it's not.
Terri Shiavo does not want to die. She demonstrated this when a counselor told her over the phone that some wanted to kill her if she did not prove that she was not comatose. She tried desperately to get out of her chair.
This is only a snippet of the story. Read the entire story at http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35077
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH
Terri Schiavo wants to live
Family reveals secret therapy sessions held for brain-disabled woman scheduled to die
By Sarah Foster
Terri Schindler-Schiavo does not want to die. She would like to go home. And she tried to convey this to her father in no uncertain terms by sitting bolt upright and trying to get out of her chair when told she might be killed, her family has revealed.
Salesmanship?????????????????????
Why then does Medicare pay for his treatment protocol?
I am having great difficulty being patient with your extreme lack of knowledge about all the issues of this case.
Tell whoever is paying you that you have been found out on Free Republic, other than that, you are lying to your boss.
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It's immaterial what Felos believes or not
Schiavo picked Felos because of his track record. Felos beliefs have a great deal to do with this case.
Says you and based on nothing.
Euthanasia is ASSISTING someone in ending their life.
Ok. So starving someone is murder?
No one is making her starve. She is incapable of eating as she is in a persistent vegetative state. If she can pick up a spoon and fork, then she will live. But she can't, can she.
It is called not using any artificial means to keep someone alive,
I have no problem with that. What I do have a problem with is Judge Greer ordering that no one feed Terri by mouth. Ordering it twice. She has been fed jello and swallowed it. I was told by another Freeper who agrees with you that that was irrelevant. But it's not.
Yes it is irrelevant. However, it's fine with me if Terri is fed jello. Just make sure it's her parents who feed it to her, as she will choke and die if they attempt it. But it's their call.
As Governor of Florida, Jeb Bush heads that agency, does he not?
I think this is a Right-to-Live case.
You never read them.
The documented facts and links have been posted here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1351061/posts?q=1&&page=1 so these terricultists have had a chance to read them and draw the obvious conclusions...instead we are taken down the rabbit hole with Alice and regaled with tales of dogmatic lunacy and conspiracy in high places.
WOW, You are in such DENIAL of the facts.
If she's not fed, what would you call it?
If she can pick up a spoon and fork, then she will live.
Is this your criteria for being allowed to live?
You really puzzle me.
It's late and I'm going to bed. Have a good night.
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