Posted on 03/30/2005 4:10:20 PM PST by Jim W N
PINELLAS PARK, United States (AFP) - As a brain-damaged woman passed her 12th day without food or drink in a hospice here, Terri Schiavo's parents are planning to again petition the US Supreme Court to intervene, their lawyer said.
As a brain-damaged woman passed her 12th day without food or drink in a hospice here, Terri Schiavo's parents are planning to again petition the US Supreme Court to intervene, their lawyer said. Bob and Mary Schindler have been rebuffed by a series of courts in recent weeks and days, their latest setback came Wednesday after the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals rejected their appeal to reopen the case into whether their daughter's feeding tube should be reinserted.
But the woman's parents appear set to continue waging their legal battle.
"I can confirm for you that we are now preparing to file an appeal with the United States Supreme Court," the Schindler's lawyer, Steve Kluth, said in a statement issued by his office.
However, the Schindlers have already been rebuffed once by the US' highest court in Washington on March 24.
Terri Schaivo's feeding tube was removed March 18, triggering an intense legal battle and a right-to-life political storm that sparked the involvement of the US Congress and US President George W. Bush.
Bush signed legislation backing a federal court review of Terri's case -- she has been in a persistent vegitative state for 15 years -- but the federal courts have so far declined to intervene on her behalf.
keep the pictures coming, anyone squeamish who can't face the truth doesn't have to look.
She is a cold one, isn't she.
You people amaze me. You truly think it is hysterical that a woman is being killed in a slow and gruesome manner. Unbelievable.
Agree the television medical experts are saying this, but it's idiotic. What, she might DIE?
One has to wonder how an individual can be giddy over the death of an innocent woman - not on life support. Sick.
"Okay, are we talking about the same Terri Schiavo? The same one that we have SEEN in videos with her eyes open, watching a balloon, and responding to a request to open them wider?
She would respond the same way to a box. Sorry."
You mean the same way a paritally blind person would respond to blurry images? I guess that means we need to starve to death all the sight-impaired. Glad thats cleared up. Did you actually go to school for that insight?
Come on Mrs. Mark, waiting with bated breath. Maybe you are have a snack and juice, or something.
Come on Mrs. Mark, waiting with bated breath. Maybe you are have a snack and juice, or something
I haven't insulted you yet. You confabulate, however.
Especially since the original injustice was rendered, and then perpetuated, by the Judiciary. There is no way the District court or Supremes will extend Terri's life now, especially if a possible outcome would be proving their original decisions to have been erroneous.
This is judicial tyranny, followed by judicial CYA. Now that they have been given this win, we'll be seeing worse down the road.
The fact that this woman is dying is sad and the end of a tragedy. I think the comparing of the Judge in this case to a Nazi, only makes things worse. I feel the only reason we have to wait for her to expire is so that no one has to actually push the button. Difficult decisions and situations and I doubt any one is acting from malice or ill will.
Box, Balloon, Brick, squash, turnip, shoe, puppy, kitten, feather.
I don't care, she RESPONDED.
"Her brain was hurt when it ran out of oxygen. She has not been lucid since."
Interesting comment,... from a point of implied authority or direct personal experience. You seem to have been able to still communicate, though. Maybe your keyboard typing is only a reflexive action to gastro rumblings.
Is dialysis out of the question?
You're nuts. Did you know that?
Your hyperbole diminshes the Nazi atrocities and diminshes FR.
Your insanity gives comfort to the Left.
You should be ashamed (but you won't be on account of the fact you are getting such a rush on Being Sanctimonious).
A judge has ordered that a mother and father can't feed their child. Think about that for a minute.
Mrs Mark wrote:"This is not murder. If someone is applying CPR to an individual, and after 15 years it is apparent that it is not working, is admitting failure and stopping the CPR murder? Terri is dying from her original injury."
That's not so. She wasn't terminal. She wasn't dying. She was living. Now she is being put to death by starvation just like any newborn babe would die if you didn't feed him.
If I have any of the facts wrong, not the spin, I would be glad to know. With this story it is difficult not to get swept up with emotions, and react emotionally calling the judge a Nazi, etc.
Have a nice day.
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