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 ...
Not by federal courts. It hasn't been reviewed 20+ times anyway. "de novo" still holds.
Yet ready to get flamed my friend.
Sit back and enjoy, it's kind of fun...
"I have a disturbingly persistent feeling that Terri would die on Good Friday."
I've had that feeling all day as well.
Irrelevant to the argument.
Disabled people should be protected. However Terri is not disabled. She is brain dead and she does not want to "live" in a PVS.
LOL! You, my friend, are the DEFINITION of a troll!
"I thirst"
That was (ahem) Anthony Kennedy, CINO extraordinaire...
You have diagnosed her as "brain dead?"
Neurologists of some repute disagree. Please, show us your credentials!
" I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. " A. Lincoln
He died on Good Friday too. :(
brain dead to me means no brain activity....
if you're going to use the term , please understand it....
people with strokes have brain damage...do you know how many people have strokes every year?
there is a particular type of stroke that effects the brain stem...
sometimes, these people can get up and move about and talk just as anyone can...
the only thing affected is their ability to swallow....when they try it, they choke and aspirate......
are we going to kill them as well, just because they can't eat like you and me?
I'm no Christian but I see that as a fair comparison. Drawn-out suffering, innocence, being put to death by the law... there are at least a few elements in common.
Jimmyclyde, American citizen.
Oh, and I have my eyes that see an individual with very, very little brain activity.
Go for it, Lucy!!!!!!!!!
I see you are still 'minimally conscious.'
http://www.earnedmedia.org/bone.jpg
How did she develop noncommunicating hydrocephalus suddenly on 3/30/90 with 2 normal CT scans on 2/235 and 2/27??
Dr. Boyle at CodeBlueBlog has examined the timeline of Terri Schiavo’s brain scans and found that for the first three days of her hospitalization, her brain scans were normal. Then suddenly, on the sixth day, her brain scan showed evidence of a massive injury. He concludes that Terri was hit on the head and suffered intracranial hemorrhage while in the hospital. On a totally unrelated topic, I wonder if Michael Schiavo was spending any time alone with Terri in her room three to six days after her hospitalization?
what Terri had was simple nutrition, used by several hundred thousands thru the years.....
its murder, what they are doing....
repeat...murder...
if she was on a ventilator, and they wanted to stop it, then its entirely differant case.....
but nutrition is not a ventilator......
its murder, and people stand around like its a political issue.....one to be debated....
just murder....
The courts have decided, after 15 years of wrangling, that Terri's wish was not to live in a PVS.
Well, Jodi. What do you know about this?
Then in the name of God..........DO IT! What are they waiting for???????????????????? this woman is runnign out of time. It's almost 10am here in Colorado which means almost noon there. Are they waiting for a court to say if they can do this or not at noon? Didn't I hear something about that? This is the most horrible thing. The same people taking the side of the terrorists and the rapists and murderers, etc allowing perverts to walk free with no ankle monitors....well, I guess it s easy to allow a young woman lying in a bed with no defenses to just die outright. Ignore the pleas of her sorrowful mother and father. Just let her die and then we're rid of one more human being....
Then in the name of God..........DO IT! What are they waiting for???????????????????? this woman is runnign out of time. It's almost 10am here in Colorado which means almost noon there. Are they waiting for a court to say if they can do this or not at noon? Didn't I hear something about that? This is the most horrible thing. The same people taking the side of the terrorists and the rapists and murderers, etc allowing perverts to walk free with no ankle monitors....well, I guess it s easy to allow a young woman lying in a bed with no defenses to just die outright. Ignore the pleas of her sorrowful mother and father. Just let her die and then we're rid of one more human being....
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