For two weeks I have carried responsibility in the legal realm for the lives of two women whom attending physicians and ethics committees have decided should not receive life-sustaining treatment. This has been a heavy burden--although I cannot compare my ordeal to that of the families and patients.
I filed papers with the court in one case (Yoland Vo) and got close to doing that in the other case (Andrea Clark). In one, a new attending physician has assumed care. In the other, the hospital is, so far, cooperating with grace and compassion to find alternatives.
I cannot express the gratitude that I feel for the bloggers, journalists, radio talk hosts who have informed the public about these cases, and the readers and listeners who have clearly expressed to the hospitals, physicians and bioethicists who support denying people autonomy in medical decisions by replacing the desires of patients and families with subjective judgments about "quality of life", that such a position is not acceptable.
OpEd - Texas Futile Care Law Doesn't Work By Jerri Ward, J.D.
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I can only surmise judges now no longer need to judge but can openly side with their pals with no pretense of fairness these days. Is he a model for what America is willing to accept as a judge?
PENSACOLA----While Pinellas County probate court judge George W. Greer continues his traveling road show in support of the euthanasia movement, Bobby Schindler, brother of the late Terri Schindler Schiavo, has called upon the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission "to review Greer's activities, both within and outside the State of Florida for the sake of other vulnerable persons that may have to appear before him".
Greer is scheduled to appear Thursday before 200 attorneys of the Escambia/Santa Rose Bar Association in Pensacola as part of the group's observance of Law Week.
Judge Greer Continues Speaking Tour For Euthanasia
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