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Battle Over Terri Schiavo Not Over
Fox News ^ | March 31, 2005 | Jane Roh

Posted on 03/31/2005 7:21:16 PM PST by tessalu

Legal analysts said to expect legislatures across the country to examine their end-of-life laws.

"In my view, the most material question is the status of a guardian," said Jonathan Turley, a professor at George Washington University who has followed Schiavo's case closely.

"I personally believe that the Schindlers had good ground to question whether Michael Schiavo should have continued as the guardian after he formed a new family with another woman and ultimately had two children by that individual," Turley told FOXNews.com

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: terrischivo
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To: passionfruit
I agree.

I think that they should also purchase a cemetery plot and place a gravestone on it for her as a memorial.

Or maybe someone will be generous enough to place a memorial stone in a park or something like that.

21 posted on 03/31/2005 7:59:01 PM PST by TNdandelion
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To: oldenuff2no

Talk about patting oneself on the back. Why don't you just go ahead and give yourself a hand as well. All you've shown to me is that you are trying to justify YOUR actions of what you perpetrated on someone elso, thus taking away your guilt feeling of taking someone's life away.


22 posted on 03/31/2005 7:59:26 PM PST by Iam1ru1-2
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To: oldenuff2no

By the way I'm oldenuff2no that you are full of s@#t!


23 posted on 03/31/2005 8:01:41 PM PST by torchthemummy ("Terrorism has less to do with economic poverty than with political poverty." - Jane Novak)
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To: oldenuff2no
If you have not been there, you have no right to impose your beliefs on anyone!!

Two points to note.

First, I've never had an abortion. By your logic, I can't discuss abortion. You tell me how that makes sense.

Second, no one can "impose beliefs" on you. It's on you to accept those beliefs or reject them. If you accept them, you may have grounds for complaining that they were "imposed on" you. If you reject them, clearly the imposition didn't work.

To put it briefly, quit whining and grow a pair.
24 posted on 03/31/2005 8:02:38 PM PST by Xenalyte (It's a Zen thing, you know, like how many babies fit in a tire.)
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To: OldFriend

And appointed himself her guardian in violation of state statutes, but don't let that fact interfer with your ass kissing of the Felos/Schiavo/Greer cabal.


25 posted on 03/31/2005 8:03:11 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: tessalu
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26 posted on 03/31/2005 8:04:10 PM PST by TheRobb7 ("Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace." --Thomas Jefferson)
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To: tessalu

For whatever reason, Turley --whom I regard very highly-- fails to note the more than a decade of abuse to Terri by her then husbadn via forced neglect.


27 posted on 03/31/2005 8:05:06 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: ClaireSolt

The legal system worked exactly as it is designed to work. The Schindlers had Sears-catalog-diploma representation; Schiavo had the state's foremost right-to-die lawyer. Terri was outlawyered.

That is just what the system is set up to do. The best lawyer won.


28 posted on 03/31/2005 8:06:40 PM PST by Xenalyte (It's a Zen thing, you know, like how many babies fit in a tire.)
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To: Lexinom

W. Campbell Walker, MD, should be disbarred for not following through on this obvious trama victim.

Where were her advocates in the health field? Surely MS wasn't powerful enough to silence them?

Everyone who mishandled this case should be pointed out and switfly dispatched.


29 posted on 03/31/2005 8:06:46 PM PST by i_dont_chat
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To: Iam1ru1-2

Methinks there be a lot of that on FR these days - quite a few pricking consciences about having unplugged Grandma or Aunt Betty.


30 posted on 03/31/2005 8:07:51 PM PST by Xenalyte (It's a Zen thing, you know, like how many babies fit in a tire.)
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To: oldenuff2no
One thought occurs to me, that the cheating husband, the judge and that loathsome troll felos don't know what it's like to starve to death. Using your logic, they can't address how Terri suffered dying in that manner. We do know though that she suffered, and they had to administer morphine.

It does look though, like none of them have ever missed a meal.

31 posted on 03/31/2005 8:09:15 PM PST by passionfruit
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To: oldenuff2no

Wouldn't want to consider what values Terri held dear, no? Maybe Terri did follow Catholic values,,seems by all indications, including those of her husband that she was a practicing Catholic. So, you say, ignore the values she would have held dear?


32 posted on 03/31/2005 8:13:29 PM PST by austinaero
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To: rbmillerjr

Don't forget your "defenseless, unable to communicate, totally dependent wife".......very brave man this Schiavo guy, very brave indeed. (sarc).


33 posted on 03/31/2005 8:14:42 PM PST by austinaero
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To: Wild Irish Rogue
It always starts out "the letter of the law".

When an innocent, nonterminal person is put to death by court order, is it unreasonable or seditious to ask if MAYBE THE LAW WAS MANIPULATED or maybe certain evidence given more weight?

Is it irrational to conclude that something is amiss with either A) the law itself, or B) the magistrates interpreting it, when that very law is turned against the very intent for which it was devised, as expressed in these words by Thomas Jefferson?:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends,["these ends" being, once again, the inherent and inalieable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, nonexclusive] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."

34 posted on 03/31/2005 8:16:03 PM PST by Lexinom (You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.)
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To: All

If this MS guy doesn't deserve moral judgment, who does? Actually, it's God's judgment that ultimately matters. It ties my human gut in knots to pray for this man, but, I can pray for healing and still be furious at his negligent (but hey, legal) treatment of his wife. Still haven't felt the healing has occurred.


35 posted on 03/31/2005 8:16:48 PM PST by austinaero
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To: OldFriend
"Terri had court appointed guardians."

Yeah, and one of them was none other than Judge George Greer!

36 posted on 03/31/2005 8:28:52 PM PST by jackibutterfly
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To: oldenuff2no
"An attorney was appointed by the courts to represent Terry. That attorney concluded that she would not want to live in this condition. The judge made a decision according to the laws of the state."

BUT, what if the law was amended to fit YOUR agenda, such as, Statute 765??? It was made just for Terri and others like her. Do you know the history of that "law"? It's pretty corrupt/criminal!

37 posted on 03/31/2005 8:32:21 PM PST by jackibutterfly
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To: oldenuff2no
"What Michael did took courage. Take the time to learn the facts of this case and not the BS hyperbole that the media has used to keep it on the front page for the last 3 weeks."

You CAN'T possibly be serious! It takes courage to off your wife, who he had been trying to kill for years!! Know why he waited 7 years to relay Terri's "wishes"? BECAUSE THERE WAS NO LAW SAYING A FEEDING TUBE IS ARTIFICIAL SUPPORT AND CAN BE REMOVED. It was when they (Michael, Felos, Greer and committee) were able to amend that law to include nutrition and hydration as life support that Michael petitioned to have Terri's feeding tube removed. Courageous! Bah! Criminal is more like it!

38 posted on 03/31/2005 8:37:30 PM PST by jackibutterfly
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To: Xenalyte

Not to mention a judge who was so inconsistent in his rulings throughout the entire case that it almost looks like he was in on the fix.

But you are right, I could have done a better job lawyering this one than the Schindler's atty did.


39 posted on 03/31/2005 8:43:57 PM PST by Free Vulcan
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To: Lexinom
"...if MAYBE THE LAW WAS MANIPULATED..."

You d$mn betcha the law was manipulated!!! Statute was amended in 1999 to INCLUDE nutrition and hydration as life support - Terri was the test case.

40 posted on 03/31/2005 8:44:18 PM PST by jackibutterfly
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