Posted on 03/23/2005 2:34:59 PM PST by gopwinsin04
State officials say they are considering removing Terri Schiavo from hospice, by force if necessary, despite numerous court orders upholding the removal of the artificial nutrition tube that has kept her alive for 15 years.
Lucy Hadl, secretary of the Department of Children and Families, said Wednesday morning that her staff is relying on a state law that gives the department the authority to intervene on behalf of a vulnerable adult who is 'suffering from abuse or neglect that presents a risk of death or serious physical injury.'
Hadl said that the DCF would have to file a petition in order to remove Schiavo, but that 'it doesn't mean we'd have to have judicial approval in advance of taking the action if we believed it met the threshold for doing it.'
Hadl said that seven years of court rulings backing Schiavo's husband Michael, in his contention that Terri Schiavo did not wish to be kept alive artificially would not stop the DCF from taking action.
'We're not compelled to look at prior judicial proceedings,' Hadl said.
What we are compelled to look at is the presenting circumstances and any allegiations of abuse and neglect that we have recieved. So we have to deal with those and fufill out statutory responsibility.'
(Excerpt) Read more at palmbeachpost.com ...
Have you read the new info from the doc that DCF has? he spent 90 min with Terri.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1369199/posts
Doctors used to do this - until lawyers got involved...
If they'd acted sooner, Greer would have made them come before him four days later, dismissed their charges, and we'd be back to square one. As it is, Greer and many other people have shown their true craven nature for all the world to see. God had to let the Egyptions follow the Israelis before he could work the wonders of Exodus 14:27-28.
Mercy and Practicality Must Prevail in Schiavo Case, Not Judicial Tyranny
Complicating it further is that she is not terminal and does not require extreme measures to keep her alive (I think that this is probably the strongest relevant argument). The moral premise and argument for Right-to-die not being suicide is that the individual is terminal and that further treatment only extends suffering - that the treatments main effect is to force the extension of suffering. That is pretty clearly not the case here.
Regardless of how this works out, this case sits within the gray area, and attempts to legislate a response in this case will likely have a bevy of unintended consequences.
Jeb will be taking Terri into custody tonight...hide and watch....
I only hope and pray that you are right.
Ugh. That is an organization already rife with abuses of power. Even if they are right in regards Schiavo, loosening their leash to do so will have a lot of horrible consequences.
They already have the power to take away my children if I abuse them or starve. So, taking away a starved abused adult [who is in a way, equivalent to a child, unable to defend herself] from the abusive spouse is not essentially an excercise of a greater power than they already have.
-A8
I hear what you are saying but it holds no water with me. We are starving a woman to death and making her parents stand there helplessly and watch. There is no reason why President Bush can not put her under protective custody until the courts do their thing. If Terri is not a criminal than what has she done to deserve an execution? Again, what is my son fighting for? I was at one time very proud to be an American but I can not say that now. I can't believe with all the great legal minds they can not devise a way to save this woman and that the liberal judges have full control. It has been proven over and over and over that Terri has been ramroded and yet we can not do anything???? It is time for the Republican Party to get their act together or we need to seriously think about starting a new political party that believes in life.
Her husband legally cannot be her guardian. If those laws were followed, a new guardian would be able to call for a de novo trial on the basis that he was not present for the old one (best to have a formerly-uninvolved Schindler sibling become guardian for this). At that trial, without Michael sandbagging Terri's condition, it would be obvious that she was not PVS and there'd be no reason whatsoever to deny her reasonable care.
This is a nice phrase. But all government is known for its "unintended consequences." One uses the ammunition at his disposal, or he forever will wonder about he outcome.
Jeb was advised to wait until tonight....he's goin' in!!! ;o)
But who are being criticized here with threats to withhold support? Republicans.
Who have been the only ones to stick their necks out to do something? Republicans.
It's insane.
Criminal...
Gabriel Keys (foreground) is arrested by police officers for
trespassing in Pinellas Park, Florida, March 23, 2005. The
young protester attempted to take a glass of water into
the Woodside Hospice for the brain-damaged Terri Schiavo.
A federal judge approved the murder of Terri Schiavo by
rejecting a request from her parents to order her feeding
tube reinserted to save her life.http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050323/ids_photos_ts/r4209066064.jpg
Well .. that's a really good name - but if he wasn't elected - then it wouldn't fit.
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