[JFK_Lib]

But doesnt FL law also make it illegal to deny a person food if they can take food?

And doesnt FL law also say that before these tubes can be removed that a physician has to again affirm that the patient is in a vegetative state?

And doesnt FL law state that Greer should have admited the contradictory expert testimony that he was ruled to be wrong for excluding?

I am no lawyer but these are issues raised before that I ahve not seen answered.

But screw the law in this case; an innocent woman cannot be left to starve to deth merely because some insane judge orders it.

[Torie]

The higher court upheld the finding of what Terri desired I assume. I don't know about the expert testimony issue. Maybe it was found to be surplusage or harmless error, I don't know. The problem is making such a finding based on uncorroborated oral testimony, particularly when the spouse has contrary pecuniary interests. That is beyond the pale. But given the robes, we need a law. We need it now; well actually we needed it yesterday, and given the state of Florida Scotus, we probably needed a federal law, as substantive federal law, not a procedural one now being batted around. I am unsentimental about suicide, euthanasia, and the like, but I know the potential for abuse when I see it, and I see it here. Pity that so many cards have been played, with so many asleep at the switch, including myself, that now the king on the chess board is close to check mate, and it is probably too late. That is a shame.