She oughta get her husband to use the "stroke of the pen, law of the land" method, for something worthwhile.
Involved to eventually do what? Say it can't do anything?
How dare the representatives of the people of America get involved! What does she think this is? A Republic? How dare her sink so low!
Denote sarcasm. HA!
Good for Laura Bush, she get's it.
turn your plane around and come back , Laura. Stop off in Florida and go visit Terri. She is a woman that is being starved and abused as the Afghan women. Then phone your husband and tell him to take his pen and write a note giving her freedom here in the USA.
Because when able and well a person can hardly imagine that he or she would want to continue living in a state of agony or non-responsiveness, or inability to control any muscles. Or G-d forbid, lessened intellectual function.
Yet once that happens ... a person's mind changes. You find life -- even in pain, without muscle control -- as a mere observer of one's own thoughts, all senses dead or impaired -- still incredibly precious. Incredibly valuable, welcome and desired. Why is that? Perhaps to have that one purposeful thought or re-thought that makes a life on balance a eternal treasury -- for just the hope of that.
It happened to me -- my mindset changed. I was the same as many with regard to my wishes if ever greviously impaired -- yet once in that state (and thankfully for not too long either) I discovered it was stil a great treasure to live, even in pain, unable to control my muscles, to communicate.
Living wills -- written in that natural human emotion of fear of the unknown are like a death sentence your once-bold and proud, yet ignorant self writes upon your own self later. They are not a good thing and they are over- promoted in the winds of the hour.
Can anyone tell me if this will do any good? Complaint has been filed with the US Dept of Justice on Terri's behalf, and a stay of execution ordered (if I've read this correctly): http://www.theempirejournal.com/329052_federal_complaint_filed_w.htm
What intervene??? Did I miss something?
First Lady Laura Bush Says
Government Right to Intervene
in Case of Brain-Damaged Florida Woman
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1373437/posts
Miss Laura is a great Lady. I know this because my wife has kept me for almost 35 years. I can tell a great one when I see one. President Bush is doing good because she kept him.
My only regret is that they and brother Jeb didn't go far enough to save her. I think the sad thing is that they wouldn't have gotten much support (look at the many pro-death Freepers we have) and this probably would have made it impossible to do anything.
But I wish they would at least come out and say something. And for all those folks who are annoyed about Jesse coming into this - I don't know his motives, and he's late to the game, but at least he's saying something and trying to do something. It couldn't hurt GWB and Jeb to come out and say a little more now - they may have done all they could do under the law, and it didn't work (because they were afraid to enforce it), but we still need to hear from them even so. It's not over yet.