Is it just my imagination, or is there a strange resemblance?
Posted on 03/11/2005 4:25:34 PM PST by gopwinsin04
With avenues to keep Terri Schiavo alive closing in the state of Florida, they were opening in the nation's capital Thursday . The tide turned decidedly in favor of the parents who want to prolong their brain-damaged daughters life.
Just a scant eight days before the court ordered deadline to remove her feeding tube, Republicans on Capitol Hill rallied around the case that has become a 'cause celebre' of conservative and religious groups.
Florida Sen. Mel Martinez and Rep. Dave Weldon's bill to require the incapacitated without living wills to be appointed attorneys before life support is terminated, introduced on Tuesday had 103 sponsors in the House and seven sponsors in the Senate.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a surgeon, is trying to get it to the Senate floor without it being heard in committte. House Majority Leader Tom Delay is working to get the bill in front of the Judiciary committee by Wednesday.
It was unclear whether US Congressional Democrats would try and stop the bill. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said he prefers for it to be heard in committee.
Sam Brownback, a Kansas Republican, said he hopes for full Democratic support and has heard no direct oppositon.
George Felos, attorney for Michael Schiavo, sounded resigned to the fact that politics in the nations capital would delay the removal of Schiavo's feeding tube the way it did in 2003, when Florida's governor and legislature stepped in.
'It is certainly disheartening to see them falling all over themselves to pander to these groups,' Felos said. 'It's a massive campaign of fear and misinformation. It's a repeat of Terri's law'
The attorney for the Schiavo parents had the opposite view. 'We are very encouraged by what is happening in Congress right now, said David Gibbs.
'The family is profoundly grateful'
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Basically, they ruled that an unconditional requirement that people be given food and water was unconstitutional. The legislature thus made the requirement so it wasn't unconditional, but made the conditions too loose.
I don't know what a "useless eater" is, don't think I want to go there. Just last week I was visiting a new store in town, saw two wheel-chair bound adolescents accompanied by a caring custodian. They were on oxygen and their eyes were vacant and unresponsive.
Wake up, Flori-duh. Who'se next? These disabled youngsters? Elderly stroke victims? Any disbaled individual who is inconvenient? Maybe you, a few years down the road? Would you lock an old dog in his kennel and forget about him for 15 days until he's dead? Your decision sets policy for the rest of us, and a huge responsibility lies on your shoulders.
It is sort of like what the Nazi's used to think. It costs us money to feed them and therefore we would be better off without them. Intellectual murder, if you will.
Like Schiavo, Felos, and Greer? I see no other rational explanation for their refusal to allow oral feeding.
Medicare malpractice. In order to get the money she needs to be terminal. Most terminal people do not eat by spoon. Of course this is just a guess.
You are unfamiliar with the rulings of the FSC. They have ruled that the power to kill Terri Schiavo emanates from the Florida Constitution, not from Florida Law. Ergo, any law passed by the legislature will be ruled UNCONSTITUTIONAL!
The same court that was laughed at by the US Supreme court. I have a feeling those folks can't even read.
Yup, the Kangaroo Kids.
Terrorist get more help and sympathy than does this poor woman.
God protect her.
But if Terri is unable to take food orally, what would be the harm in letting the parents try? The only "harm" I could see, from anybody's perspective, would be if they succeeded in which case it would prove that attempting to kill Terri would be nothing less than premeditated murder.
In other words, the laws passed by both houses in the legislature have no merit with the courts. Interesting.
i dare say that the people that think that Terri's life isn't "worth saving" prolly wouldn't say the same thing about Steven Hawking NOW after what he has accomplished, but what about before?
Just because someone needs a feeding tube is NOT a reason to kill them---there are a lot of physical illnesses and even emotional illnesses that require patients to a have a feeding tube, but that doesn't mean that they automatically should be "put down"!!!
I am really, really having a hard time figuring out what is in it for the judge to be this way---he has the power to "stay" her execution at any time, for any reason, for any length of time, but he won't---
Maybe he is getting a cut of the malpractice payoff---
thanks for the ping. Quite a resemblance; alas, Greer won't suffer Mussolini's fate.
Thank God!
Brilliant! What a mind on you.
Is it just my imagination, or is there a strange resemblance?
Not true. My first concern has always been for the Constitution and Bill of Rights. It has to be - for the good of all of us.
Individual law-abiding citizens are, first and foremost, promised equal federal protection. Nobody talked me into changing my stance on state laws - it came with a great deal of reading and re-reading those sacred (to me) documents.
Does that mean you support Terri Schiavo's right to life? Or does it mean that you only support those parts of the Constitution and Bill of Rights that don't interfere with killing her?
Yes, Dog Gone - they CAN pass an uncomplicated bill. But, by you telling us that over and over and over and over isn't going to get them the PASS THAT UNCOMPLICATED BILL "it's that easy". Somehow, WE have to get them to pass that uncomplicated bill. But HOW???? Who's going to do it?
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