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Schindlers' Options Dwindle to Hearing Tonight with Federal Judge (Motion DENIED)
AP ^ | March 24, 2005

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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: florida; righttolife; schiavo; terri; terrischiavo; whittemore
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To: sinkspur

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".


261 posted on 03/24/2005 6:11:52 PM PST by sarasota
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To: Spunky

No. I've been deaf for 28 years.


262 posted on 03/24/2005 6:12:25 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (You have a //cuckoo// God given right //Yeeeahrgh!!// to be an //Hello?// atheist)
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To: Timeout

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.


263 posted on 03/24/2005 6:12:59 PM PST by Pravious
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To: churchillbuff

YES!


264 posted on 03/24/2005 6:13:13 PM PST by freecopper01
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To: DevSix

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.


265 posted on 03/24/2005 6:13:13 PM PST by VinceJS
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To: kalee
Heck, he eats better than I do!
266 posted on 03/24/2005 6:13:20 PM PST by razorbackmama
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To: proud American in Canada
We pray, we call, we work within the law but even despite that sometimes the worst happens.

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.

267 posted on 03/24/2005 6:13:39 PM PST by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Increase Republicans in Congress in 2006!)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
they're getting ripped off by their own lawyer.

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.

268 posted on 03/24/2005 6:14:03 PM PST by churchillbuff
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To: Spunky

That is probably the best summation of how we here at FR feel tonight. No excuse needed.


269 posted on 03/24/2005 6:14:45 PM PST by NCC-1701 (AN ACTIVIST JUDICIARY IS A CULT!!!!! IT MUST BE ERADICATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.)
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To: DevSix

"sins" was used as an image.
Whatever JB does will be thrown back to GWB and you know it even if it is unfair.


270 posted on 03/24/2005 6:14:53 PM PST by northernlightsII
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To: Petronski

Petronski,

You missed it, too?

We were both out of the room at the same time, I guess!


271 posted on 03/24/2005 6:15:01 PM PST by freecopper01
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To: farmer18th
ultimately too cowardly to be the leaders of the free world

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.

272 posted on 03/24/2005 6:15:11 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Tax Government
How would it be if 37% of America disfellowshipped 64%, aggressively seeking economic, cultural and political/jurisdictional isolation from them?

Count me in. It's way past time!!

273 posted on 03/24/2005 6:15:20 PM PST by VinceJS
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To: Trout-Mouth
That was his plan before this week. Now he has too much attention & may not sue. However the culture of death will reward him for advantancing their cause. Same for the Swamp judge.
274 posted on 03/24/2005 6:15:23 PM PST by JonDavid
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To: VinceJS
Act first to save her life, worry about "legality" later.

How''s the saying go, It's easier to apologize after the fact than ask permission. ?

275 posted on 03/24/2005 6:15:34 PM PST by churchillbuff
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To: BigSkyFreeper
The Schindler's should have gotten competant lawyers 8 years ago, but I quite frankly think the Schindler's are too blind to notice they're getting ripped off by their own lawyer.

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....

276 posted on 03/24/2005 6:15:41 PM PST by razorbackmama
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To: farmer18th
Swine.

ROTFLMAO. Wow -take a break...

277 posted on 03/24/2005 6:16:04 PM PST by DBeers
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To: VinceJS

Wow, great rant. Too bad it was totally insane.


278 posted on 03/24/2005 6:16:10 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: RedBloodedAmerican

Check and see if this Hospice and others are part of a holding company. They could be loosely connected in that fashion.


279 posted on 03/24/2005 6:16:20 PM PST by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Increase Republicans in Congress in 2006!)
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To: RedBloodedAmerican
Woodside Hospice is the residential facility of The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, a Florida corporation.

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.

280 posted on 03/24/2005 6:16:37 PM PST by browardchad
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