Posted on 03/18/2005 8:11:44 AM PST by Brilliant
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. - As a deadline loomed, U.S. Senate Republicans sought to keep severely brain-damaged Terri Schiavo alive Friday with an invitation to bring her to Washington, and an attorney for her parents said they hoped the move would buy them more time.
The Senate Health Committee has requested that Terri Schiavo and her husband, Michael, appear at an official committee hearing on March 28. Earlier Friday, a House committee was issuing congressional subpoenas to stop doctors from disconnecting the tube.
Michael Schiavo has waged a yearslong court battle with his parents-in-law, contending his wife, who has been in a persistent vegetative state since 1990, would not want to live that way.
Courts have cleared the way for him to remove her feeding tube as early as 1 p.m. Friday. The tube has been removed twice in the past and then reinserted as the battle continued.
"It is a contempt of Congress to prevent or discourage someone from following the subpoena that's been issued," David Gibbs, the attorney for her parents, said. "What the U.S. Congress is saying is, `We want to see Terri Schiavo.'"
"The family is prayerfully excited about their daughter going before the United States Congress for the whole world to see how alive she is."
He said that despite her brain damage, she would be able to travel. A statement from the office of House Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., on Friday said the purpose of the hearing was to review health care policies and practices relevant to the care of non-ambulatory people.
I heard on the radio this morning that senate democraps tried to tie up the bill by putting tax increases attached to it. They are lower than low. Beneath the scum.
---and are our Congressional jackasses now going to be involved in every living will, etc., case that comes up?
Didn't hear that but am not surprised - jerks!
Glenn Beck reported it.
FOX news reported that five supeaneas are being delivered to Terri's parents, her husband, the hospice administrator and two physicians who have worked on her. Congress is delaying its Easter recess. I applaud the fact that as we celebrate Ressurection that at least finally someone will look into procedures in place that determine who lives and who dies. I am wondering why advocates for persons with disablities have been strangely silent in this case. One step down the slippery slope of euthanasia will lead to more and more times it will be employed. Who decides who is next, Actor Christopher Reeve required a ventilator to stay alive. Nobody questioned that. So why this young woman in Florida? We don't execute convicts untill all appeals are exhausted. Seems we ought to do the same in the Schiavo case.
What should we call it when Michael Schiavo, George [Starving Judge] Greer and the Florida State Supreme Court try to stymie an investigation into abuse of a human being?
http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2005/3/18/74896.html
..the Florida Supreme Court rejected a request for a stay by the state's Department of Children and Family Services, citing a lack of jurisdiction. The agency had argued that it needed time to investigate allegations of abuse by Schiavo's guardian, her husband Michael.
That's exactly it. This is about judicially legislated euthanasia, pushed by those with the culture of death agenda who found a homicidal husband.
The State of Florida law regarding the right-to-die explicitly states that nothing in it may be interpreted to legalize euthanasia. With the poor wording regarding PVS, the death agenda found an opening to push for euthanasia by using Terri as their sacrifice.
Culture of death or culture of life, Good or evil, take your pick.
If she had a living will this would be a whole different case. She doesn't, there's only the word of her 'engaged to another woman and father of 2 children by that woman' husband.
Who knows, but since this is no living will involved here, what's your point?
Probably no more than Congress has investigated every alleged abuse of power since Watergate.
Yep. But the right to die crowd will be here in a jiffy.
Heck. They're here already.
Martin Frost (D-Tx) on FoxNews saying congress should be involved in solving the budget problems instead of Terri's problems.
--my point is that there have been years of judicidal proceedings already--just how much micromanagement of everything that can grab a headline do we want Congress to stick its nose in?
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
"This is not a right-to-die case. She hasn't asked to die. It's more like a right-to-kill case. It's euthanasia."
Nah. Euthanasia is more humane than starving her to death.
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