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Fed Appeals Court Grant Terri's Parents Petition for Rehearing
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Posted on 03/29/2005 9:36:23 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Edited on 03/29/2005 9:59:29 PM PST by Jim Robinson.
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FEDERAL APPEALS COURT WILL LET TERRI'S PARENTS FILE A PETITION FOR REHEARING FOR AN INJUNCTION TO REINSERT FEEDING TUBE... BREAKING
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Court Says Yes To Schiavo Parents
March 30, 2005
(CBS/AP) A federal appeals court early Wednesday granted Terri Schiavo's parents the right to file a petition for rehearing for an injunction that could allow their daughter's feeding tube to be reconnected.
The ruling came just after midnight from a federal appeals court in Atlanta.
On Tuesday, Schiavo's 12th full day without food or water, the Rev. Jesse Jackson prayed with her parents and joined conservatives in calling for state lawmakers to order her feeding tube reinserted.
The former Democratic presidential candidate was invited by Schiavo's parents to meet with activists outside Schiavo's hospice. His arrival was greeted by some applause and cries of "This is about civil rights!"
"I feel so passionate about this injustice being done, how unnecessary it is to deny her a feeding tube, water, not even ice to be used for her parched lips," he said. "This is a moral issue and it transcends politics and family disputes."
As the Schiavo deathwatch drags on, CBS News Correspondent Mark Strassmann spoke with two families who grappled with the same issues as the Schindlers and Michael Schiavo. On one side are Dorothy and Michael Brocato, who have provided care for their brain-damaged daughter Lisa, who suffered brain damage from a heart attack 15 years ago.
"We have devoted our lives to taking care of Lisa, says her mother. The Brocatos are sympathetic to the Schindler's wish to keep Terri Schiavo alive
"I love her. I love her. I couldn't picture not having her around me,'' says Dorothy Brocato.
Ron Oister has watched the Schiavo drama play out from a very different perspective. When Oister's father was essentially brain-dead, his son's wrenching decision was to let his father go.
"It was very hard,'' Oister told Strassmann. "That was my father. And he was in front of me. And I knew he could never return to what he had been."
Oister says Schiavo's parents helped create this needless public spectacle because they refused to face their hard reality.
"She died then, not now. My own experience would say that one ends life at that time."
Jesse Jackson's visit provided an emotional boost to Schiavo's parents and siblings, who have maintained that Schiavo would want to be kept alive. Her husband, Michael Schiavo, insists he is carrying out her wishes by having the feeding tube pulled.
Mary Schindler, Terri Schiavo's mother, later made a terse but emotional appeal to Michael Schiavo: "Michael and Jodi, you have your own children. Please, please give my child back to me." Michael Schiavo and fiancee Jodi Centonze have two children, born long after Terri Schiavo fell into paralysis.
Although supporters of the Schindlers have claimed the dehydrated woman is being denied comfort measures such as ice chips for her dry mouth or balm for chapped lips, George Felos, the husband's attorney, defended how Schiavo is being cared for.
"Obviously, the parents and the siblings are desperate. Desperation may lead to different perceptions," Felos told CNN. "I can only tell you what I've seen, and Terri is dying a very peaceful, cared-for death." Felos did not return phone messages seeking comment from The Associated Press.
Jackson said he asked Michael Schiavo for permission to see the brain-damaged woman but was denied. He also telephoned black legislators in a last-ditch effort to bring back a bill that would prohibit severely brain-damaged patients from being denied food and water if they didn't express their wishes in writing. Lawmakers rejected the legislation earlier this month and appeared unlikely to reconsider it.
One of those contacted by Jackson, Democratic state Sen. Gary Siplin, said he told Jackson the issue had been "thoroughly discussed." Senate Democratic leader Les Miller added, "I have voted. It's time to move on."
The chief sponsor of the measure, state Sen. Daniel Webster, said he knew of no changed votes and that Jackson's efforts may have come too late.
"If he could sway votes and I'm certain he may be able to it would have been helpful if he had done that a little earlier" said Webster, a Republican. "We're running out of time. To do it now is not as timely as a couple of weeks ago would have been."
Bob Schindler described his daughter as "failing" following his visit Tuesday.
"She still looks pretty darn good under the circumstances," Schindler said. "You can see the impact of no food and water for 12 days. Her bodily functions are still working. We still have her."
First lady Laura Bush also commented on the case Tuesday, saying the government was right to have intervened on behalf of Schiavo.
"It is a life issue that really does require government to be involved," Bush said aboard a plane bound for Afghanistan, where she was to promote education and women's rights.
During Jackson's visit, a man was tackled to the ground by officers when he tried to storm into the hospice, police said. He became the 47th protester arrested since the feeding tube was removed March 18. The man had two bottles of water with him but did not reach the hospice door, police said.
Doctors have said Terri Schiavo, 41, would probably die within a week or two of the tube being removed. She suffered catastrophic brain damage in 1990 when her heart stopped for several minutes because of a chemical imbalance apparently brought on by an eating disorder.
The parents also lost another round in the courts Tuesday when an appeals court upheld a pervious ruling by Judge George Greer that blocked the Department of Children and Families from intervening in the case.
Court Says Yes To Schiavo Parents
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: blessedterri; christhavemercy; hopebeyondallhope; lordhavemercy; myjesusmercy; parentsrights; prayforamerica; prayforterri; schindleristas; terri; terribots; terrischiavo; terrischindler; the13thday
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To: incredulous joe
Hopefully, this decision is a pre-cursor to something like that...
To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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posted on
03/29/2005 9:42:00 PM PST
by
NCnodeLOGICBOMB
(Noise is a byproduct of inefficiency.)
To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
I just saw this on Fox too. It is really, really, late for Terri though. They must move very quickly for it to be of practical benefit for Terri's life.
43
posted on
03/29/2005 9:42:00 PM PST
by
TotusTuus
(Christos Voskrese!)
To: CyberAnt
44
posted on
03/29/2005 9:42:28 PM PST
by
nicmarlo
To: All
Please let it not be too late
To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
I can't believe she is still alive.
46
posted on
03/29/2005 9:42:39 PM PST
by
doug from upland
(MOCKING DEMOCRATS 24/7 --- www.rightwingparodies.com)
To: incredulous joe
They should force them to reinsert the tube while they're chatting about it I don't think they can do that. They will have to rehydrate her very carefully. She has a horrendous amount of toxins accumulated in her blood and kidneys. I think they would have to put her on dialysis or something similar in order to get her blood back to normal.
To: nicmarlo
The 11th? I thought they booted it out like a football.
48
posted on
03/29/2005 9:42:51 PM PST
by
drlevy88
To: KneelBeforeZod
My wife is in the medical field, she tells me there is a method of restoring hydration to people like Terri. ..... Slow return, not a rush to give her hydration and food.
Prayers for Terri
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posted on
03/29/2005 9:43:21 PM PST
by
MJY1288
(The Democrats are the party for the death of the innocent and life for the wicked)
To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
I wonder if this has anything to do with it?
Federal Complaint Filed with DOJ in Schiavo Case Alleging ADA Violations
03/29/05
© The Empire Journal
A New York State special education teacher has filed a detailed eight-page complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of Terri Schindler-Schiavo, alleging numerous violations of the Americans with Disabilities.
An immediate stay of execution has been requested until the matter can be investigated..
http://www.theempirejournal.com/329052_federal_complaint_filed_w.htm
To: McGavin999
I think they would have to put her on dialysis or something similar in order to get her blood back to normal. Can they do a total transfusion, take the old blood out while putting the new in?
51
posted on
03/29/2005 9:43:51 PM PST
by
drlevy88
To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
What?? When some Judges found themselves on the same side as the ACLU and opposing Jesse, Lanny and all but the most hard bitten law and order "conservatives" they began to see horns growing in the mirror.
To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
ANDRE LENOGE: "Where is Congress? Where are the Senators?
Nobody knows. There has only been only one case like this in all of American history.
That was Roanoke Island, North Carolina in 1587 when everyone disappeared. Every man, woman and child.
Hope is dimming for the missing ethical residents of the US Congress.
Today the Congress is quiet, empty of sentient people
but there is word carved on the side of the back wall of the Senate Chamber, "Croaton".
No one knows what it means. Maybe its a place favored for pork?
Maybe it is a hex to call Satan from evil Pinellas County, Florida. No one knows.
But I do know one thing. Congress will ALL need to be replaced in the next election."
Senators (in Unison): "We are sorry Judge Greer. We are sorry Judge Greer. We will give you what you want.
We are so sorry Judge Greer. Please take our respect and our children.
Starve them. Cremate them. Feed them to your seeing-eye dogs. Oh Judge Greer, we worship you and will all give you anything you want."
Judgenfuhrer Greer: "As of today, March 30, the US Congress and its toliet paper subpoenas
are NOTHING but pussies and a bucket of warm spit.
I freely micturate on 18 USC Section 1505 and Title 2 of the US code
before the entire world."
53
posted on
03/29/2005 9:43:55 PM PST
by
Diogenesis
(Si vis pacem, para bellum)
To: MJY1288
I sure hope it's not too late. Prayers for Terri are intensely going up She's a fighter .. prayers going out for Terri too!
54
posted on
03/29/2005 9:44:15 PM PST
by
Mo1
To: drlevy88
Jay Sekulow has gotten involved, and was part of helping to submit this to the 11th Circuit.
To: drlevy88
11th yes Court of Appeals Federal Court
Letting Schindlers parents refile petition for rehearing for injunction.
DC committed plain error when it reviewed only case history not facts of the case.
56
posted on
03/29/2005 9:44:17 PM PST
by
nicmarlo
To: KneelBeforeZod
I hate to think it, but at this point, I wonder if putting the tube back in will be too much of a shock. At this point in time, this will be a form of torture for her body.
Live with that knowledge, and I hope you are proud of yourself.
57
posted on
03/29/2005 9:44:17 PM PST
by
Hunble
To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
I must admit that I am thoroughly and completely bamboozled
regarding Judge Greer's authority.
It appears that Greer is Probate Judge... which is to say, he has
authority to oversee the distribution of my late Gramma's china
and silverware, etc.
However... from where and how does he have the power and
uthority to prevent a poor dying woman from taking a sip of
water ???????????
58
posted on
03/29/2005 9:44:26 PM PST
by
GeekDejure
( LOL = Liberals Obey Lucifer !!!)
To: drlevy88
59
posted on
03/29/2005 9:44:37 PM PST
by
sageb1
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