Posted on 08/28/2003 5:20:42 AM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
In fact it has gotten more and more easy for them to do it. It seems to me like we have a very ugly system of runaway courts in place.
Unfortunately, not all pro-euthanasia people are atheists
Jack Helinger, the first recipient of the award, calls Campbell an "absolutely outstanding person and a lawyer. She's beyond just being friendly. She has a good heart. To her credit, she brings that good heart to her lawyering skills.
The (Terri) Schiavo case is obviously the most noteworthy. That is a case that reasonable minds can differ as to what's right and what's wrong. But she brought not only her legal abilities to that case, but also her personal good heart and passions."
For Campbell, the Schiavo right-to-life lawsuit has been among her toughest cases. She took the lawsuit in 1998 at the request of malpractice attorney Glenn Woodworth. "I met with the family (Bob and Mary Schindler) and looked at some of the records and thought this was really sad that these poor parents weren't ready to let their daughter go," Campbell says.
"Her parents asked me to please visit Terri once before I decided against accepting the case. I met Terri in a nursing home. I saw how much she responded to her family. Her dad was telling her football jokes and she was grimacing, making pouty faces, over his corny jokes. When her mom talked to her, she made noises toward her mom. She clearly responded to her."
Campbell took on the Schindlers' plight to save their daughter whose husband, Michael, was seeking court approval to remove her feeding tube, saying she was in a persistent vegetative state.
Campbell, working without compensation, took the case to trial in 2000 in front of Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge George Greer and lost. But the lawsuit is far from over. It's now being fought by attorney Patricia Fields Anderson, who obtained another trial that resulted in another win for Michael Schiavo. But the matter is now under consideration by the 2nd District Court of Appeal.
As a result of the Schiavo suit, Campbell says she has become more aware of people who have disabilities and their daily struggles. "It was truly a blessing for me to have been involved in that case," she says. "I see brain injured people like Terri who are now walking and talking and able to participate joyfully in their life. I'm much more aware of the rights of the disabled. It seems like there are many people who feel that someone like Terri, a brain injured person, is someone who doesn't matter. That's not true."
Did you see the case where the staff at a nursing facility taught the patient to eat with a spoon while the court was trying to have the feeding tube removed and kill her? By the time they got the order the patient was weaned from the feeding tube.
It seems like the best hope for Terri is jello, after all. Legally the parents and sibs are probably prohibited from trying to feed her, but why would Felos, etc, care if something went wrong when he wants her to die anyway.
Jack Helinger, the first recipient of the award, calls Campbell an "absolutely outstanding person and a lawyer. She's beyond just being friendly. She has a good heart. To her credit, she brings that good heart to her lawyering skills.
The (Terri) Schiavo case is obviously the most noteworthy. That is a case that reasonable minds can differ as to what's right and what's wrong. But she brought not only her legal abilities to that case, but also her personal good heart and passions."
For Campbell, the Schiavo right-to-life lawsuit has been among her toughest cases. She took the lawsuit in 1998 at the request of malpractice attorney Glenn Woodworth. "I met with the family (Bob and Mary Schindler) and looked at some of the records and thought this was really sad that these poor parents weren't ready to let their daughter go," Campbell says.
"Her parents asked me to please visit Terri once before I decided against accepting the case. I met Terri in a nursing home. I saw how much she responded to her family. Her dad was telling her football jokes and she was grimacing, making pouty faces, over his corny jokes. When her mom talked to her, she made noises toward her mom. She clearly responded to her."
Campbell took on the Schindlers' plight to save their daughter whose husband, Michael, was seeking court approval to remove her feeding tube, saying she was in a persistent vegetative state.
Campbell, working without compensation, took the case to trial in 2000 in front of Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge George Greer and lost. But the lawsuit is far from over. It's now being fought by attorney Patricia Fields Anderson, who obtained another trial that resulted in another win for Michael Schiavo. But the matter is now under consideration by the 2nd District Court of Appeal.
As a result of the Schiavo suit, Campbell says she has become more aware of people who have disabilities and their daily struggles. "It was truly a blessing for me to have been involved in that case," she says. "I see brain injured people like Terri who are now walking and talking and able to participate joyfully in their life. I'm much more aware of the rights of the disabled. It seems like there are many people who feel that someone like Terri, a brain injured person, is someone who doesn't matter. That's not true."
Congratulations Hank, you are only poster #4 whose just trying to be macho about this death stuff. You are in a minority on this issue.
On Drudge: "Survey Finds Millions of New U.S. Drug Abusers."
Between dumbed-down public education, availability of illicit drugs, plus abortion, then officials like Greer and the legal assistance of ghouls like Felos - the perfect population control.
I am going to try to find and buy both of his books tomorrow. Anyone read or seen them?
Even though I confess to thinking that they will kill Terri, one way or the other, without a miracle, I did want to ask him what he thought would help or if he had any insight to offer.
"Mr. Smith, an attorney based in Oakland, California for the International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force, has written a heavily annotated and well-documented book of smoldering outrage over the direction of medicine and "bioethics" especially in the past thirty years. He quotes Richard John Niehaus from a 1988 essay in Commentary, "The Return of Eugenics," in which Niehaus describes a shift in thinking very similar to what Alexander has said: "Thousands of ethicists and bioethicists, as they are called, professionally guide the unthinkable on its passage through the debatable on its way to becoming the unjustifiable, until it is finally established as the unexceptional." Smith then goes on to depict in case after case how the formerly unthinkable has indeed become the unexceptional."
I think that is what we have here now - "the formerly unthinkable".
One of my pet peeves is how easily human beings follow a fad. I've seen some really weird people lately. This tattoo thing is nuts! Tiny diamonds studs in their noses, & big diamonds decorating their tongue. They can't even speak clearly.
These are not rich people - some are doing manual labor, spending their money on garbage.
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