[dwilli]

Many treat this case as if it is the first time
intravenous food has been removed from a patient
who is brain dead but appears to be responsive to
reflex motion.

It's been done since the beginning of medicine. It will
continue to be done until the end of medicine.

The folks that are so adamantly protesting this action
are much more worried about it's effect on the anti-abortion/right-to-life movement movement than they are about Terri Schivano.

[inquest]

"Intravenous"? Where are you getting this information from? The court order forbids even giving water by mouth.

Please get your facts straight before posting on a thread like this, where there's a lot of sincere concern and outrage on this subject.

[UCANSEE2]

about it's effect on the anti-abortion/right-to-life movement movement than they are about Terri Schivano.

And the elderly in nursing homes, which the hospice took in over $14 million scamming medicare for 150 plus patients who were not TERMINALLY ILL, and the disabled. I mean, If Judge Greer can alter the statutes to fit one particular case, as they did ten years ago, but Jeb Bush cannot do the same thing without FELOS and GREER declaring it unconstitutional, then what manner of disability is ruled ARTIFICIAL LIFE SUPPORT next?

[ex 98C MI Dude]

No, this is the first time that a person who is not otherwise dying has been removed from a feeding tube that most people are aware of. What ailment does she have that would cause the end of her life? She is not being treated for any disease, or any defect that is getting worse, threatening to end her life. The only reason she is dying now is because she is not getting any food or water. That would be true of any other person on the planet.

If medicine advocates starving/dehydrating its patients, then the Hippocratic Oath is dead. First, do no harm.

She is not brain dead. She is brain damaged. There is a difference. This case has just legalized the killing of minimally conscious citizens, on the idea that they would not want to live.

[Edgerunner]

You have COMPLETELY MISSED THE POINT!

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

That is patent nonsense.

You cannot speak for everyone concerned about the starvation of Terri Schiavo. You apparently believe you know the motives of millions of concerned people and can neatly organize them into one nasty smear.

A lot of us want an innocent woman to live. We will never apologize for that compassion for the helpless.