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To: sweetliberty
The state law is premised on a person being in a persistent vegetative state, which Terri clearly is not. And there most certainly can be an investigation of attempted murder.

Unfortunately, the courts have ruled she is in a persistent vegetative state. That's why the courts Michael Schiavo can have the feeding tube disconnected.

I do believe that FDLE has already investigated other complaints made by the Schindlers--about the broken bones--and, although I don't have the precise wording, they declined to have the case prosecuted.

The only good that will come out of all this is there will be changes in the state law.

201 posted on 10/19/2003 11:32:50 AM PDT by Catspaw
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To: Catspaw
"the courts have ruled she is in a persistent vegetative state"

And it is clearly a lie. Just like the courts have ruled that a fetus is not a person. Also a lie. So at what point do you take a stand and say that the courts are out of line and have overstepped their authority? When they say that the Down's syndrome child is not a person and can be killed, or quadraplegics such as Christopher Reeve, or maybe not until a kid down the street from you is hit by a truck and the court rules that he is no longer a person because he won't ever be able to walk again and can't speak quite as clearly as before. Or maybe you are one of those people who will afford godhood to the courts until they come for a healthy grandchild of yours because she/he is the wrong gender or is born with a genetic predispositon to some illness.

I am not saying that I believe you to be that kind of person. I don't. But I do think that these cases have serious implications for our future and the future of our children and grandchildren and what I see are the conditions of pre-Nazi Germany which should not be tolerated by freedom loving people, especially Christians, at any level.

205 posted on 10/19/2003 11:41:54 AM PDT by sweetliberty ("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
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