[wolicy_ponk]

She is also being denied last rites, which includes Holy Communion, one wonders if they could legally be forced to reinsert the tube for that specific purpose...

[AmericanInTokyo]

Could the local Archbishop of the Catholic Church in her area, make an emergency pastoral ruling and hold that Holy Communion, in this specific case, would be distributed to Terri Schiavo, as blessed by a priest and present in the liquid food that would be delivered by a tube? It does not necessarily have to be bread, in it's physical form.

Accordingly denial of the Holy Eucharist to this young woman via feeding tube, would be an infringement upon her free exercise of religious expression, a violation of her Constitutional rights? Or that feeding tube could be subsituted for oils, for 'Extreme Unction' (Rights of the Dying)?

Brainstorming for ANYTHING here in complete dispair......

[gruffwolf]

Why, so they could remove it again?

Let's not torture the woman.