Posted on 03/27/2005 1:30:00 PM PST by Gondring
Should we kill her before we find out? Or should we give the benefit of the doubt to life, and follow the Congressional bill to do a de novo investigation of her condition?
If you are right, nothing has been lost. If you are wrong, an innocent woman has been murdered by the State.
NO choice for a clear thinking person, IMO.
A person who has to be on a machine to breathe, and whose organs are shutting down due to illness is a totally different situation from a person who is simply receiving sustenance through a tube. (In fact, her nurses said she can swallow, but it takes a great deal of energy.) If I stopped giving you food and water, you'd die just like Terri is dying. She has no other "extraordinary means" of survival other than FOOD AND WATER.
You don't mind my asking, do you?
I respect the opinion of the court assigned medical experts that have physically examined Terri and ALL determined that she is in a PVS.
I also respect Terri's right to not be kept alive in this condition
I'm curious about how early your hospital could take a premature child and hope for it's survival.
20 years ago I had a girlfriend who had a baby at UofM hospital in Ann Arbor Mi. I asked the doctor how early they could keep a premature baby alive. Then they could take a baby at nearly 2 full months short of full term. That was 20 years ago at a leading medical facillity, so I imagine they can keep a very early baby alive today.
"One question, DC............why did you sign up on FR just a few days ago?"
I do not mind you asking at all. I have been a reader for about the last 4 months, but decided to sign up and start participating in the forums recently (10 days ago)
(There are nurses who have signed sworn affidavits that they fed her through the mouth.......we don't have the full story, which is why we need a new investigation with current medical testing).
May I ask if you're a conservative?
"Ah.......but Terri clearly wants to live. If she didn't, she wouldn't be surviving the painful starvation process she is being put through"
This makes no sense. Patients are given a window of 2-3 weeks before they pass away.
I am a conservative and a Christian as well as rationale.
(And as a Christian, why do you not know that those who engaged in mass murder in the name of Christianity were not followers of Jesus Christ?)
Sorry if I doubt you, but we have been invaded by many pretenders in the past week, on both sides of this argument.
You're right to doubt. I've seen some of his/her/its other posts and I am suspicious myself.
Call me skeptical. Thanks for your post.
"And you, as a Christian, are just fine with taking a non-terminal patient's life painfully over a 2 to 3 week period? One, like Terri, for whom there is NO proof that she wants to die?"
I am not sure how to answer your questions because I do not agree with things you state. I believe Terri is terminal. (ie. Permanent Vegetative State). I also believe that by law the proof is in her husbands testimony. I believe that the law should be upheld at all times and that is the very reason the that laws are created.
I am not sure whether you read all my posts relating to your second question, but if you did, you would realize I was using it as merely a comparison.
I don't know if there is an absolute line on fetal age. Survival seems to be dependent on birth weight.
Haven't you seen the Logan thread and the more recent thread on the tiny baby in Mobile, Alabama.
Both of them are FReepers babies. Logan is pretty much the unofficial mascot of FreeRepublic.
His life has been documented from birth, ventilator and months in PICU to going home, first steps, first birthday.
He was about as big as a man's palm.
He is actually that clueless!
Your arrogance is exceeded only by your ignorance.
Careful. Gondring might want them dead, too.
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