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To: RedBloodedAmerican

"Yes, he did indeed. I don't believe death by starvation is euthanasia"

What is it, then?


37 posted on 03/31/2005 7:47:53 PM PST by dsc
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To: dsc

Witholding food and water from a disabled person?
Torture? Murder?

I am watching Jay Sekulow on Nancy Grace. He is hitting the nail on the head.


38 posted on 03/31/2005 8:51:28 PM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
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SEKULOW: Let me tell you where. It's exactly what the judges that have dissented in this case have said, and that is this. You have a situation where normally the husband is the guardian. But here you had a different situation. The husband was the guardian, but the husband had another family. And guardians aren't supposed to have conflicts of interest


And I believe he had the ultimate conflict of interest. And that was a due process violation. It should have been brought in at the beginning.

HANNITY: Hey...

CRIER: Jay, that is not fair. Hold on, Sean. Jay, that's not fair, and you know that's not fair, Jay.

HANNITY: Catherine, let me jump for a second.

CRIER: Because, in fact, this man was actually chastised by the people who were caring for her in the first three years because he was so adamant about her care and about rehabilitation that they actually said, "Shut up, Michael."

SEKULOW: Catherine, you didn't listen to a word I just said. What I said was he made the decision to have another family about seven years ago. That's when all of a sudden this living will -- which wasn't a will, of course, it was oral statements -- were made. And how are you the guardian of trustee when you're not independent or you have no conflict of interest? You know, if you were a guardian or a trustee of a bank, you can't...


http://www.aclj.org/News/Read.aspx?ID=1417


39 posted on 03/31/2005 8:55:27 PM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
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