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To: robertpaulsen
Given that Terri was in a PVS, I don't see how. Maybe you'd better explain.

If I have to explain to you that humanity extends beyond the ability to reason or perceive pain, it is really pointless. One wonders why morphine was administered to a sub-human vegetable.

She did not want medical care under those conditions. The court honored her wish.

Food and water is not medical care. You can keep fooling yourself that Terri Schiavo's wishes were followed in this matter, but you ARE fooling yourself.

That would have been illegal.

Correct, but what was done to her was much worse. It was an abomination.

130 posted on 06/20/2005 9:24:06 PM PDT by MamaLucci (Mutually assured destruction STILL keeps the Clinton administration criminals out of jail.)
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To: MamaLucci
"One wonders why morphine was administered to a sub-human vegetable."

Because the extreme right to life fanatics like you insisted that morphine be injected into a "vegetable". The judge conceded, figuring it would do no harm.

I'm sure he regrets it after reading comments like yours that suggests he did it because Terri could feel pain.

"Food and water is not medical care."

That is correct.

But when delivered by medical staff, on doctor's orders, through an artificial, surgically implanted feeding tube, however, it becomes medical care.

138 posted on 06/21/2005 6:02:23 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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