Posted on 03/16/2005 7:52:45 AM PST by topher
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The leaders could decide to call up a bill that would allow parties to the case, which has been tried in Florida courts, to petition to have it heard in Federal District Court. Alternatively, the GOP leaders could decide to try to move a private bill dealing specifically with the Schiavo case.
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Santorum said that Schiavo, based on brain activity, was close to equivalent of someone with the disease cerebral palsy and that he wouldn’t let the courts allow her to die, adding, “That’s not going to happen on my watch.”
Santorum said that if it was apparent by the end of the week that Florida courts wouldn’t stop the removal of Schiavo’s feeding tube, “Then I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure that they do.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Terri Schiavo Ping!
Thanks for posting this. PRaying MUCH!!!!
While the intentions are "good" and noble this is another affront to states rights.
Just as the Supreme Court trampled on the states and the death penalty recently...
Good to hear!
"But some neurologists who have examined the case say that Schiavo’s parents are being fooled by apparent outward signs of cognition and that her level of brain activity is quite low."
Couldn't the same thing be said for most liberals?
Cordially,
And personal(family) rights. The bill would subject families' most sensitive and personal end-of-life decisions to control by government edict. No thanks.
It is good to hear. I am keeping up the prayers for Terri. This is one of those stories that has me so upset that I can't read most of the threads about it. It sickens me to think that this poor woman is going to be murdered--and that's exactly what it is, make no mistake about it.
Santorum in 2008!
Hope the bill doesn't include a big payday for the husband, mind you.
Prayers for Terri Schiavo and her family.
Humane and humanitarian policies must be above partisan politicization, and above petty political tugs and wars.
The universal principle must be "reverence for life."
AND, the death penalty is a punishment that fits the crime, and reveres the life cruelly taken by the murderer.
Terri's case has nothing to do with "end-of-life" decisions. She is not terminally ill. It's not the end of her life unless her "guardian" (backed by a court edict, incidentally) is allowed to start and complete the process of her starvation.
Cordially,
Prayers for Terri Schiavo and her family.
Humane and humanitarian policies must be above partisan politicization, and above petty political tugs and wars.
The universal principle must be "reverence for life."
AND, the death penalty is a punishment that fits the crime, and reveres the life cruelly taken by the murderer.
Let us all pray that it will be so.
This woman's civil rights are being denied by a crooked judge in a backward county with not even an audit of guardianship practices (as ordered by the legislature.) If this isn't a case that should be in a federal court, then you should feel free to use the Bill of Rights for toilet paper.
Terri's only problem in sustaining life is that she cannot feed herself, a condition we all experienced in the first months after our birth.
But some neurologists who have examined the case say that Schiavo’s parents are being fooled by apparent outward signs of cognition and that her level of brain activity is quite low.
And common criminals when they lose their appeals and have to face the death penalty are not starved to death. That is cruel and unusual punishment. They get a lethal injection.
Even if Schiavo loses a federal appeal, any decision to starve her to death just to get her "to die off and go away" would be "cruel and unusual."
The only brain-dead ones are the neurologists who have also recently suffered cardiectomies.
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