Aside from killing a disabled woman, what’s the controversy?

FreeRepublic ^ | 5/23/2005 | Marvin Galloway

[Aquinasfan]

she is not executed, her artificial surviving process is merely being stopped...

Thanks for clearing that up. I was wondering if the courts would consider it murder if I stopped the artificial surviving process of feeding my baby.

In other words, it is now legal to starve anyone to death if their lives do not meet our quality standards.

[TASMANIANRED]

You are very blood thirsty.

[freecopper01]

holdmuhbeer,

Glad you're tired of it. The Ruling Death Party of American can use of people of your mindset. Why? Because over time, they're older members may face the prospect of being without the artificial survival proccess and the party will need new blood.

As for me and mine, let us just say that we've developed a healthy appreciation for the ability to know who can be trusted with our lives.

[GloriaJane]

I love your seal! It feels sooo sadly true right now.

[Tax-chick]

Just don't stop your dog's artificial surviving process ... you'll go to jail.

[workerbee]

Some you countries have euthanasia in their legislation..so are they right like a hitlerian regime?

Why don't you tell us?

Or maybe you're off to a humanities class or something.

[TASMANIANRED]

I didn't make it but it is a work of art.

I intend to use it often.

[Spiff]

by ordering that the port for her feeding tube be removed … and a feeding tube is all this woman needs to continue living.

Check the actual court documents. He didn't order just the feeding tube to be removed, he ordered that ALL nutrition and hydration be ceased.

You can see the actual document HERE.

Here are the relevant portions:

ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that the Motion for Emergency Stay filed on February 15, 2005 is DENIED. It is further

ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that absent a stay from the appellate courts, the guardian, MICHAEL SCHIAVO, shall cause the removal of nutrition and hydration from the ward, THERESA SCHIAVO, at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, March 18, 2005

DONE AND ORDERED in Chambers, at Clearwater, Pinellas County, Florida, at 2:50 p.m. this 25 day of February, 2005.

SIGNED
GEORGE W. GREER
CIRCUIT JUDGE

This clearly is not the order for removal of "artificial life support" or even the removal of a feeding port - it is undeniably the order to starve Terri Schiavo to death. It is like ordering a plastic bag to be tightly tied over someone's head as their respirator is being unplugged - entirely denying them oxygen.

[Reborn]

Rott, Mrs Schindler does not require help with her autonomic functions. She requires food and water, and because she is largely immobile, she also requires other forms of primary care. We wouldn't refuse this form of care to an Alzheimer's patient, or a six-month old child. Or a dog.

Ya know.......I understand now more than ever WHY Nancy Reagan kept media OUT of President Reagan's last years. One has to wonder why Nancy didn't just refuse to feed him [read starve him to death] since he had no hope of ever getting better.

[Aquinasfan]

From the form letter sent to relatives of the victims: "In view of the nature of his serious, incurable ailment, his death, which saved him from a life long institutional sojourn, is to be regarded merely as a release."

Thanks for posting that.

[Spiff]

See Post #88 and then eat your words.

[TASMANIANRED]

You parade your ignorance with out shame.

Terri is not in a coma either.

[Aquinasfan]

artificial feeding or surviving could be stopped..why not?

Because it's murder.

[repentant_pundit]

...under Terri's condition, let her go.

What do you mean, "let her go"? She has a brain injury. She wasn't ill, wasn't diseased, wasn't dying, wasn't going to "go" ANYWHERE until this week, when people like you decided to send her to death's doorstep by the torture of starvation and thirst.

What if you were locked in a room with no food or water, because some judge decided your ignorance and inability to punctuate a sentence were unacceptable mental defects?

Guess that would be simply letting you "go".

[Two-Bits]

Do they forget who started this website, a handicap person. Remember there are those that may feel that Jim is a burden to society and should not be allowed to live......All of you that think being handicap is a condition worth than death better take a hard look at our founder, Jim Robinson who has done more for Society than any of you would ever hope to attain in a million lifetimes.

(Sorry Jim for bringing you into this I am just tired of these people thinking being handicap is the absolute crime against humanity)

[TASMANIANRED]

Why don't you try explaining the difference between euthanasia and Hitlers way.

[Polyxene]

Schiavo, Greer, Felos, et al. - Murder, Inc.

[Aquinasfan]

I'll bet you if you put the food on the floor of the playpen and sat him down amidst it, he would eat on his own.

So does Terri, if you give her a feeding tube. Both are equally "artificial surviving processes."

[TASMANIANRED]

Doctors are not God, they only think they are.

[GloriaJane]

Truth is there is no difference and if we don't reign these courts in we are headed down the same deadly road.