[NYer]

I think that the position presented by Judge Barbara Pariente, is gravely inexact: the problem does not lie in choosing between 'emotions and rules,' but between defense of a human life and the rules,"

[trashcanbred]

Is it possible for the parents to move her to a new state that would protect her?

[nickcarraway]

Terri's Ping

[NYer]

"Terri's husband pursues obsessively his wife's death (alleging, naturally, that he does so out of compassion for her). Terry's parents are fighting to save her life. If only our judges would learn something of the wisdom of Solomon," he concluded.

Catholic Ping - let me know if you want on/off this list

[NYer]

Ping!

[festus]

This is judicial activism gone amuck. You silly legislative body you can't go passing laws to govern the state, the court can decide whatever it wants and you are powerless to do otherwise. na na na ( FL Courts to Judiciary and Administrative branch ).

Further I saw an article today about this being about "A womans right to die". Horsespit. Its about a mans right to kill his wife, slowly and painfully.

If Jeb doesn't put the state police in the hospital to enforce his order ignoring the courts then I will know the republic is in serious jeapordy.

[mississippi red-neck]

They casually deny life to the innocent and strain to keep alive convicted murders.

They seek to remove the true God from His throne so they can ascend to it and rule in His place.

They should no longer be called a Supreme Court Justice but Supreme Court Deity.

Such is the nature of our courts today.

[supercat]

The Solomonic thing to do, IMHO, would be to offer the following proposal: the feeding tube is removed, and the parents forbidden from reinsering it, but Terri would be left with her parents who would be allowed and encouraged to attempt (with whatever professional assistance they selected) to give her oral food and hydration.

I do not think Michael would accept such a proposal, but it would be interesting for him to articulate reasons for refusing it. If Terri is as totally incapacitated as he claims her to be, oral feeding and hydration would not extend her life appreciably. And if he's correct in his belief that she's brain-dead, she shouldn't mind one way or the other who provides care in her last days.

I wonder what specific objections Michael would offer to such a proposal?

[Semper Paratus]

I wish President Bush would turn up the volume against jackboot judges.

[HiTech RedNeck]

"We are not insensitive to the struggle that all members of Theresa's family have endured since she fell unconscious in 1990. However, we are a nation of laws and we must govern our decisions by the rule of law and not by our own emotions," she continued. "Our hearts can fully comprehend the grief so fully demonstrated by Theresa's family members on this record," the ruling said. "But our hearts are not the law. What is in the Constitution always must prevail over emotions. Our oaths as judges require that this principle is our polestar, and it alone."

As if the most profound issue at hand was the Schindlers' bereavement? Nothing about the looming Terri starvation being an out and out abomination? Nice strawman, Barb.