Brain-damaged woman moved from hospice to hospital

Associated Press ^ | 10-21-03

[Brian S]

(Tallahassee, Florida-AP) -- A brain-damaged woman at the center of a bitter right-to-die controversy has been moved from a hospice to a hospital.

Terry Schiavo (SHY'-voh) has been without food or water for six days. She's to be given fluids at the hospital before again being fed through a tube.

Florida Governor Jeb Bush ordered that the feeding tube be reinserted. He acted after the Legislature rushed through a law giving him that authority.

The bill was designed to save the life of Schiavo, whose parents have fought for several years to keep her alive. Her husband, Michael Schiavo, says she would rather die.

Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was removed by court order at her husband's insistence last Wednesday. Doctors said the 39-year-old woman would die within a week to ten days without food and water.

Court-appointed doctors have described Schiavo as being in a vegetative state, caused when her heart stopped in 1990 from a suspected chemical imbalance.

[MSCASEY]

What she is not getting RE-HYDRATED? What is the name of the hospital! Time to give them a call!

MCD

[PeyersPatches]

Thanks for the ping...been gone all day and my DSL is down...I'm chugging along on dial up and playing catch up.

[Palladin]

Jeb, I luvya! I take back all the negative things I said about you last week!!

Didja get the "big" phone call from Ma or W??

[LADY J]

To: clintonh8r; All

WOOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Any Suggestions???? PLEASE COPY AND PASTE THIS ON EVERY
THREAD
From floriduh voter | 10/21/2003 9:36 PM EDT new


BREAKING... IV HAS BEEN STARTED... TERRI WILL BE TURNED OVER TO A
REAL GUARDIAN. Felos INJUNCTION WAS JUST DENIED BY JUDGE BAIRD.
Please copy and paste this on every Terri thread you can find. Thanks, FV
from the Front Lines, the freep of our lives. Thank you Free Republic, the
Nation and the World!!!!!!!!

219 posted on 10/21/2003 6:44 PM PDT by Calpernia (Innocence seldom utters outraged
shrieks. Guilt does.)

[silly me]

MY POINT EXACTLY! The bigger crime (sin) is to let her die... Let's not hide behind the facade of arguing for the Constitution. Typically, legislators don't give a damn about Constitutional issues. I say: let them quit hiding behind their supposed love for the Constitution and do the right thing!!!

[PeyersPatches]

Praise God from whom all blessings (and miracles!) flow.

I will sleep so well tonight knowing that our Terri (yeah I feel like she's our little sister!) is being cared for and out of the hands of those monsters!

[PeyersPatches]

Oh yeah, ditto about the Governor. I will gladly eat a plate of crow for thinking bad words about him. He came through.

[ellery]

No, you miss my point. I care deeply about the Constitution, and Constitutional issues. What I'm asking is what, exactly, the Constitutional issue is here.

[Palladin]

Whole lotta crow-eatin' goin' on...