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To: pollywog; All
Have the parents filed a complaint with the police against Michael Schiavo?

I find it hard to believe that the lawyers would have overlooked this tactic, but you never know.

Instead of going after the judge, why can't Michael be charged with neglect? This could be a new case, as he is now in violation of the Florida guardianship law that states a guardian cannot deny basic care (food and water) to their ward. He may have the right to pull her feeding tube, as it is considered artificial life support, but he cannot deny her right to eat through her mouth.

1,210 posted on 10/17/2003 3:00:03 PM PDT by iowamomforfreedom (Why is it illegal to starve an animal but not a human being?)
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To: iowamomforfreedom
He may have the right to pull her feeding tube, as it is considered artificial life support, but he cannot deny her right to eat through her mouth.

Wanna bet?

How much money you prepared to lay on the line?

Warning: this is a sucker bet.

1,227 posted on 10/17/2003 3:22:24 PM PDT by Don Joe
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To: iowamomforfreedom
Instead of going after the judge, why can't Michael be charged with neglect? This could be a new case, as he is now in violation of the Florida guardianship law that states a guardian cannot deny basic care (food and water) to their ward. He may have the right to pull her feeding tube, as it is considered artificial life support, but he cannot deny her right to eat through her mouth.

I think that is what they were asking Gov. Bush to do.....

1,240 posted on 10/17/2003 3:54:17 PM PDT by pollywog
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To: iowamomforfreedom
How about suing Terri herself?
If the court has found that she actually issued that statement about wanting to die rather than live like this, one might keep her alive by making her a party to a lawsuit, for having enabled this situation. No one should have a right to suicide in a manner so barbaric, or to require other people to assist in such a thing. She is violating the rights of hospital personnel and making them subject to criminal charges.
If she is at all a person under the law, use the law to compel her to cease and desist in this inhuman performance of a criminal act, which makes others guilty and endangers all of us by its precedent.
Ah, but she is no person, Judge Greer has declared her "property."
1,258 posted on 10/17/2003 5:39:25 PM PDT by Graymatter
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