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Schiavo 'fading quickly,' parents tell court
MSNBC ^ | March 22, 2005 | The Associated Press

Posted on 03/22/2005 12:28:18 PM PST by AliVeritas

TAMPA, Fla. - Warning that Terri Schiavo is "fading quickly," her parents begged a federal appeals court Tuesday to order the severely brain-damaged woman's feeding tube reinserted while they pursue claims that her rights are being violated.

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David Gibbs III, attorney for parents Bob and Mary Schindler, told the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta that their 41-year-old daughter might die before they get a chance to fully argue their case. The appeal came after a federal judge in Tampa rejected the parents' emergency request earlier Tuesday.

"Where, as here, death is imminent, it is hard to imagine more critical and exigent circumstances," Gibbs said in the appeal, filed electronically with the court. "Terri is fading quickly and her parents reasonably fear that her death is imminent."

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To: Jeff Head
This Judge could easily have ruled constitutionally that she had a right to life, which trumps all of the other legaleze and mumbo-jumbo being spouted by those who support having her killed.

Such a right would logically invalidate every "living" will and similar documents. Unless the right is burdened with the idea the state can condone suicide.

41 posted on 03/22/2005 12:44:30 PM PST by Shermy
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To: speed_addiction

I think that we are all instrements of God, maybe this poor womans suffering is coming to the end of exposing the Left for who and what they are.

Nothing could have exposed the complete contempt the Judicary hold we the great unwashed rabble.

I am sure no good shall come to theses Judges, this gutless, souless little man Micheal Schiavo and the Democratic Politicans of the Local and National parties.

I have some good advice for all of them, Don't mock God, it's a fools bet.


42 posted on 03/22/2005 12:44:45 PM PST by Rumplemeyer
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To: Lexinom
"We are not safe."

I am very safe.

43 posted on 03/22/2005 12:47:34 PM PST by verity (The Liberal Media and the ACLU are America's Enemies)
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To: lugsoul
...O3...
44 posted on 03/22/2005 12:50:07 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Michael Schiavo remains married to Terri Schiavo only for the purpose of ending her life.)
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To: gimme1ibertee

Terri's death will not bother him, he has done the same thing to both his mom and dad.


45 posted on 03/22/2005 12:50:10 PM PST by sam I am
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To: gimme1ibertee

Yes, and in addition I pray they haul his sorry a$$ in front of a Grand Jury and hang him high for MURDERING his wife.


46 posted on 03/22/2005 12:50:47 PM PST by bboop
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To: Shermy
Ideologically you are right, but in day to day life, in instances where death is clearly imminent and articial means only serve to delay that moment at great cost...this is what living wills are made for and I believe an individual has the right to make that decision with a doctor...either at that moment if they are conscious, are before hand if they legally draw it up.

In any case, at that point it is the individual's clearly recorded decision being inacted, not someone else's interpretation or some judge's "ruling", which are both, IMHO, inappropriate, unless there is unaninimity by the direct family members who have no conflict of interest in their death regarding such clear cut wishes. None of that applies in the least in Terri's case. What is happening to her is an aboration and a gross corruption.

47 posted on 03/22/2005 12:51:07 PM PST by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: utahagen
Michael Schiavo claims that pulling the tubes isn't killing; it's merely "allowing her to die".

Kind of like a Scott Peterson type claiming that watching his wife drown in the ocean when she can't swim isn't killing; it's merely "allowing her to die"

48 posted on 03/22/2005 12:51:18 PM PST by m1-lightning (God, Guns, and Country!)
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To: Muzzle_em

I think we all have a right to question why the media is pushing for death. I now have a very low opinion of ABC, CBS, and Fox, and MSNBC. Now I will never trust them again.


49 posted on 03/22/2005 12:51:39 PM PST by tessalu ( A)
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To: m1-lightning

Exactly right.


50 posted on 03/22/2005 12:51:49 PM PST by utahagen
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To: AliVeritas

I cannot help but think she is going to be something like a martyr and provoke a HUGE backlash against the people that want her dead.


51 posted on 03/22/2005 12:54:12 PM PST by Centurion2000 (Nations do not survive by setting examples for others. Nations survive by making examples of others)
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To: AliVeritas

>>Terri Schiavo is "fading quickly," <<

Music to Michael Schiavo's ears.


52 posted on 03/22/2005 12:54:14 PM PST by conservativebabe
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To: West Coast Conservative
I think the cops feel kind of bad for arresting the woman with the water bottle. My only clue is the lack of handcuffs - so far - they probably have no option when she gets tossed in the paddy wagon.
53 posted on 03/22/2005 12:56:22 PM PST by Mark was here (My tag line was about to be censored.)
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To: Muzzle_em
Originally, I believed the media when they were constantly saying she is in a vegetative state. Now I keep hearing otherwise.

Legally speaking, she is in a vegetative state because Judge Greer made that determination and it was upheld on appeal. Now, whether she truly is or isn't, the opinions could not be further apart.

That's why it would have been nice if the Schindlers had asked the federal court to take a new look at that instead of pursuing a very weak first amendment argument.

54 posted on 03/22/2005 12:56:32 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Green

You got to be kidding - the president/gov. have the power to protect citizens. This women does NOT have a living will - the husbands testimony is heresay and suspect. He is the President of the United States - if he wants to send troops into that room he can - who would stop him?????? We have given the courts to much power to determine right and wrong - they have no guidance, could care less about presedence (unless it serves their purpose) and have allegence to thier political ideology not the constitution. Its time we the people (starting with the president) make a stand against these rogue courts/judges.


55 posted on 03/22/2005 12:56:42 PM PST by sasafras (unity not diversity is what made America great)
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To: AliVeritas

God, grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change.
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.

Amen


56 posted on 03/22/2005 12:57:11 PM PST by i_dont_chat
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To: West Coast Conservative

God Bless Lana Jacobs, I would have went with her,

Where's Jesse Jackson?


57 posted on 03/22/2005 12:58:40 PM PST by wrathof59 ("to the Everlasting Glory of the Infantry".........Robert A Heinlein)
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To: AliVeritas
But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God

2 Timothy 3: 1-4

58 posted on 03/22/2005 12:59:32 PM PST by Obadiah
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To: West Coast Conservative

In my mind, each and every one of these police officers are no different than the Nazi troopers who allowed themselves to be a part of the holocaust! It's the old "I was only following orders" excuse here in the good ol' USA! These cops are the worst of the lot, just cowardly scum packin' guns to do the will of the "Fuhrer", Judge Greer! There are no words to describe the depth of depravity of these sub-human scumbags in blue uniforms!


59 posted on 03/22/2005 12:59:40 PM PST by bowzer313
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To: West Coast Conservative
Oh, for a 100,000 more Lana Jacobs. (ala the Ghandi Salt March)

-A8

60 posted on 03/22/2005 1:00:05 PM PST by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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