Posted on 03/24/2005 10:24:20 AM PST by spycatcher
STARVATION: DAY 7
Jeb Bush urged to intervene immediately
Keyes, Klayman in Tallahassee for face-to-face meeting
Posted: March 24, 2005
11:35 a.m. Eastern
With legal and legislative options apparently exhausted, former Judicial Watch chairman Larry Klayman and former presidential candidate Alan Keyes are in Florida's capital trying to persuade Gov. Jeb Bush to use his executive powers to save Terri Schaivo's life.
Klayman, a candidate last year for the U.S. Senate from Florida, believes that since Bush "is the supreme executive power of the state of Florida, he has the right and duty to step in and, in effect, pardon Terri Schaivo from the death sentence that has been unduly placed upon her by the court system."
The Schaivo case presents a "vacuum" for the judicial system, Klayman and Keyes contend, because it "failed to act to save Terri's life" and "all Americans that want to see justice done would like for that vacuum to be filled before it is too late."
In a unanimous decision, just announced, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request from Terri Schiavo's parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, for an emergency order allowing Schiavo's feeding tube to be reinserted.
Klayman met with Bush's general counsel yesterday afternoon to outline the legal justification for Bush to act and present a legal brief prepared by Keyes.
They expect to meet with Bush today to "stress that time is of the essence, that Terri can die at any moment."
Keyes wrote a column published this morning by WorldNetDaily, arguing for Bush to step in and save Schiavo amid judicial abuse of the separation of powers.
Larry Klayman is legal counsel for William Greene's RightMarch.com and Alan Keyes' Declaration Alliance, both advocates for saving Schiavo's life.
Yesterday, religious and political groups banded together to urge Gov. Bush and his brother, President Bush, to use their executive powers to order police to take Terri Schiavo into protective custody.
As WorldNetDaily reported, the Florida judge who has consistently ruled against efforts to keep Terri Schiavo alive has said no to an effort by the state's Department of Children and Families to rescue the brain-injured woman by physically removing her, but a department spokeswoman says the state agency still could take action without judicial approval.
Pinellas Circuit Court Judge George Greer said the state cannot take Schiavo into custody, nor provide her food or water.
The possible "rescue" scenario emerged today with Schiavo now in her sixth day without food or water. Florida's DCF indicated it might remove the brain-injured woman, by force if necessary, from the hospice where she has lived the past five years.
At a news conference yesterday, Gov. Bush confirmed the DCF, under his authority, was considering the move.
Bush said new information had come to light warranting intervention, including a review of Terri Schiavo's condition by neurologist Dr. William Cheshire, who claims she may have been misdiagnosed. Cheshire believes Schiavo to be in a "minimally conscious state," not a "persistent vegetative state" as courts have determined.
"It is imperative that she be stablized so the DCF team can fulfill their statute to review the facts surrounding the case," Bush said.
Here in WV they gave us 72 hours to try to find another
hospital once the meeting (which they never actually
called an Ethics Committee meeting) decided to stop all
care for our mother. I assumed this is the same in every
state?
He's, also, denied her last rites...Isn't that denying her religious freedom?? I heard on the Today show that the Judge(Greer?) ordered ALL law enforcement to respond if Bush tries to take her into protective custody
Where has Larry Klayman been all this time?
jeb.bush@myflorida.com
Frankly, if this goes on after noon tomorrow, I will begin to think it more humane to let her go than bring her body through the trauma of recovery.
But, Jeb can act tonight one minute after midnight and not have to go to court until Monday.
Tell Jeb save her!
Whats the matter with Larry doesn't he realize that were killing someone!
Jeb might be toast whichever way he chooses to proceed. If that's the case, he might as well end it by doing the right thing. If he pulls something out of his executive bag of tricks the Dems, the idiots that support them, the media, and a lot of pundits will be all over Jeb and maybe a few on the right side, but that's always the case--at least he will have most conservatives supporting him. If he doesn't act, he's going to have the Dems still hating him like usual plus a lot of conservatives.
What in the hell do you expect?
Did J. Orlin Grabbe's invitation get lost in the mail?
From a NRO Corner article:
In August 1996 the Journal of the American Medical Association published an article describing procedures then in effect in Houston hospitals. Under these procedures, if a doctor wished to deny a patient lifesaving medical treatment and the patient or the patient's surrogate instead steadfastly expressed a desire for life, the doctor would submit the case to the hospital ethics committee. The patient or surrogate would be given 72 hours notice of the committee meeting would be allowed to plead for the patient's life at it. During that short 72 hour period, the patient or surrogate, while preparing to argue for life, could also try to find another health care provider willing to give the lifesaving treatment, food or fluids.
If the ethics committee decided for death, under these procedures there was no appeal. There was no provision that the food, fluids, or lifesaving treatment be provided after the decision while the patient or family tried to find another hospital willing to keep the patient alive.
So under these procedures, the hospitals in Houston were denying life-saving treatment, food and fluids against the wishes of patients and their families, when the hospital ethics committees said their quality of life was too poor. Patients and families were being given only 72 hours after being notified of the proposed denial to find another health care provider.
In 1997 there was an advance directives bill going through the Texas legislature that would have given specific legal sanction to such involuntary denial of life-saving treatment. An effort in the Texas legislature to amend the bill to require treatment pending transfer to a health care provider willing to provide the life-saving treatment had been defeated. When that bill reached Governor George Bush’s desk, he vetoed it, and said he was vetoing it precisely because it authorized hospitals to deny lifesaving medical treatment, food, and fluids against the will of the patients.
But even without that bill, these procedures were still going on. So there was an effort in the next sitting of the legislature, in 1999, to pass protective legislation. Unfortunately, the votes just weren’t there to require lifesaving treatment, food, or fluids be provided by unwilling hospitals. So there were negotiations that resulted in a bill that gave partial protection. That 1999 bill:
first, formalized more protections for in-hospital review second, gave patients 10 days of treatment while seeking transfer, and third, authorized court proceedings to extend the 10 days for reasonable additional periods to accomplish transfer.
Thanks BikerNY, I'll do that. I ride too, which is part of the reason I'm so interested in this. I do everything I can to reduce the potential for injury and increase my odds of surviving a crash (always wear a helmet & armor, ride defensively and with caution, never drink & ride, etc). But nevertheless, if my luck runs out I most certainly do not want to be kept in a state like Terri Schiavo for 15 years.
I don't think so.
As expected, Greer denies...........Gov. Bush is the last hope.
I agree, this is too big an issue to hope that people will not form opinions.
A backlash.
You have to have made the nuttiest,most irrational,lunatic fringe post I have ever seen. Hysterical flaming is not going to save Terri. Get a grip,this is not the time to be committed to a funny farm.
"Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, and we will kill them under state law."
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