Posted on 08/26/2003 8:57:11 AM PDT by NYer
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) _ Gov. Jeb Bush asked a judge Tuesday to delay setting a date for removal of a brain-damaged woman's feeding tube so that a guardian for her can be appointed.
In a letter to state Circuit Judge George W. Greer, Bush asked that Terri Schiavo be kept alive until a court-appointed guardian can ``independently investigate the circumstances of this case and provide the court with an unbiased view that considers the best interests of Mrs. Schiavo.'' Bush said his office has received 27,000 e-mails from people asking him to intervene.
Schiavo has been in what doctors call a persistent vegetative state since collapsing in 1990. Her heart stopped from what doctors believe was a potassium imbalance. The 39-year-old woman has been at the center of a long legal battle between her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, and her husband and legal guardian, Michael Schiavo. The parents want her kept alive; her husband says she never wanted to be kept alive artificially.
On Friday, the Florida Supreme Court refused to intervene in the case, clearing the way for Greer to set a date for removal of the feeding tube keeping her alive.
AP-ES-08-26-03 1130EDT
Agreed!
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Maybe that's what it's all about: thumbs up or thumbs down--vox populi.
If you read about this case in a work of fiction, you wouldn't believe it. It's soooo pathetic. This poor woman was most likely brutalized and her "husband's" worse nightmare would be Terri resurrected and on the witness stand testifying as to how she got her injuries in the first place.
He could divorce her, but then I guess he meant it when he said, "Till death do us part."
And the bishops not supporting the family is a disgrace...but that's a whole other subject.
If the "husband" were successful in having her die, the effect on the medical profession and on each and every one of us would be tragic.
Good on ya. They've heard from us as well. Land line, email to the Guv and the Attorney General.
To this judge based on his apparent MO, What might he think if he saw Hawking without his awesome wheelchair and technology that enable him to speak, lying helpless in bed? This great scientist, arguably one of the greatest minds of the day would be a useless feeder to this judges way of logic.
I firmly believe if we allow this evil (and it is evil) to spread, there will be as many if not more euthanasia clinics as there are abortion clinics in the coming decades.
We defeated Hitlers killing machine only 60 odd years ago, but in the last 30America has killed more of its own citizens than the entire Nazi holocaust, and each season brings new attacks against the inviolable God given Constitutionally protected right to life.
We have become Nazis and put our Holocaust Chambers in harmless looking buildings with quaint signs to fool ourselves.
I am not fooled, I am BITTERLY disgusted and ashamed.
July of 1992
"Summer of Purpose"
Public works crews constructed hundreds of feet of fence down the middle of
Bennington Ave. and on a privately owned vacant lot next door to the Delta Women's
Clinic to separate pro-lifers from the clinic and its pro-abortion forces.
Bennington Avenue will be closed "until further notice," city-parish officials said.
DPW crews installed a 6-foot-tall chain link fence
around a vacant lot adjacent to the clinic on Bennington Avenue and installed a
similar fence down the middle of Bennington Avenue near the clinic.
The work was done to prepare for Operation Rescue's "Summer of Purpose
protests in Baton Rouge. Delta was considered the primary target of the
pro-life group Operation Rescue In Baton Rouge.
"All human beings (from conception to natural death) are
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights and that
among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness".
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I doubt he has a clue how many people are on Terri's side it goes beyond 27K emails. Let's give Judge Greer a wakeup call. This is not rule of law. It's life and death.
This is the phone number for a few pay grades above J. Greer. Call the: Judicial Qualifications Commission at #1-850-488-1581.
I'm complaining tomorrow that J. Greer is playing God, that he's been in the husband's corner since Day One, he doesn't care a wit about Terri's parents or her husband's recent attempt to deny her medical treatment, and I'd like to know if Greer can be recalled or impeached.
HE SHOULD HAVE OR COULD HAVE HONORED GOV. BUSH'S REQUEST TO ASSIGN A GUARDIAN AD LITEM to represent Terri's interest instead of once again, taking the side of the husband. Judge Greer is from the Sixth Circuit Court, Pinellas County.
Oh, and ping everybody you can think of.
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