Posted on 03/24/2005 4:45:17 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
A federal court hearing has started in one of the last effort attempts by Terri Schiavo's parents to restore their daughter's feeding tube.
But the judge already has turned down the parents once. Bob and Mary Schindler are asking for an emergency order to reinsert the feeding tube in the brain-damaged woman.
The hearing in Tampa is before U.S. District Judge James Whittemore. He turned the Schindlers down once, as did a federal appeals court and the Supreme Court. A state judge, a state appeals court and the Florida Supreme Court also have all come down on the side of the husband, who wants to let his wife die after 15 years in what some doctors call a vegetative state.
The latest defeat for the Schindlers was today when a state judge said he won't go along with Governor Jeb Bush's request to order the feeding tube reinserted. The governor had said that new allegations of abuse of Terri Schiavo need to be investigated. The governor also tried to challenged the diagnosis that Terri Schiavo is in a persistent vegetative state.
How is America supposed to "feel"? Safe from murderers like Mike Schiavo, for starters. And faith in the politicians who believe we should "err on the side of life".
No. I've been deaf for 28 years.
I dunno. In comparison to starving a fellow human being to death, I consider man-made laws to be less than meaningless, and, if I had the power, would disregard them in a moment without a second thought to stop this atrocity.
And if that's political suicide - well, so be it. I'd rather be an ex-politician than abandon my humanity, as so many on the side of death here have done.
YES!
Well, like it or not, I'm putting the blame on Jeb Bush. Actions speak louder than words. And a woman is dying. Act first to save her life, worry about "legality" later.
That is so true. There is only so much you can do and then you put it all in God's hands. As a pastor of a church in a small town in Ohio that I grew up in used to tell us -- always remember when you pray it is "Thy" not "My" will be done.
What has happened is a travesty and we need to work to make sure this practice of starving anyone to death is ended. We need to keep working to get that barbaric treatment of a human being banned in every state. Then this cannot happen again.
I suspect the guy's pro bono (no charge). But I' m sure they could have gotten some very high-powered conservative lawyers, also pro bono, once this federal case became a possibility last week.
That is probably the best summation of how we here at FR feel tonight. No excuse needed.
"sins" was used as an image.
Whatever JB does will be thrown back to GWB and you know it even if it is unfair.
Petronski,
You missed it, too?
We were both out of the room at the same time, I guess!
It's bad enough that lots of times people might think other people are fools; it's always amazing to watch people prove it.
Congratulations.
Count me in. It's way past time!!
How''s the saying go, It's easier to apologize after the fact than ask permission. ?
I've been hesitant to say it, but since you already have, I agree. I'm certainly not placing BLAME (since the blame definitely lies with MS, Felos, and Greer), but I will say that I haven't been very impressed with the Schindlers' lawyer....
ROTFLMAO. Wow -take a break...
Wow, great rant. Too bad it was totally insane.
Check and see if this Hospice and others are part of a holding company. They could be loosely connected in that fashion.
I've seen no indication that Felos "operates" it. He was President of the BOD of Hospice of the Florida Suncoast according to their 1999 Annual Report. He was no longer on the BOD as of the 2000 Annual Report. According to WorldNet Daily, he resigned soon after Terri was admitted there as a patient.
It's better to stick to the documented facts in this case -- they're damning enough.
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