[deport]

A tube is not a machine. Food and water are not "Medical treatment," much less extraordinary.

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765.101 Definitions.--As used in this chapter:

(10) "Life-prolonging procedure" means any medical procedure, treatment, or intervention, including artificially provided sustenance and hydration, which sustains, restores, or supplants a spontaneous vital function. The term does not include the administration of medication or performance of medical procedure, when such medication or procedure is deemed necessary to provide comfort care or to alleviate pain.

Then drop on down and read the following section of FL Law....

PART IV

ABSENCE OF ADVANCE DIRECTIVE

765.401 The proxy.

765.404 Persistent vegetative state.

Now what under FL Law isn't being followed in this case?

[sittnick]

PART IV ABSENCE OF ADVANCE DIRECTIVE 765.401 The proxy. 765.404 Persistent vegetative state. Now what under FL Law isn't being followed in this case?

I could suggest that the declaration of her being in a "persistent vegetative state" was as fraudulent as was the case of all those "wrong thinking" Soviets being put in insane asylums for denying that the USSR was a workers' paradise.

I would simply assert that any law that allows the deliberate starvation and dehydration of a healthy human being is completely against natural law, on which the Delcaration and the Constitution must be based to be valid.

If Florida had a law that said handicapped newborns without insurance left at the hospital would be given no treatment, or that the parent or guardian could withhold such treatment, I would call the law invalid on its face.

Free Republic-style conservatism is not ordinarily a place for Holmesian positivists. Making it illegal for people to give a dehydrating woman a drink of water is cruel government interference.

I suppose the Ukrainian forced-starvation also violated no laws.