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Drudge should know the reason this is happening to Terri is because of judges legislating from the bench THROUGHOUT the country, not just Florida.

The more I read, the more upset I get. Here's one of many stories:

"After his wife announced she was going to terminate him," Tom Finn, Hugh's father, said, "I sat and told him that she was going to put him to death. He pinched his face up and brought both arms up and shivered, then both legs picked up, and he moaned very load."

Last summer, Bob Diamond, the Finn's attorney, whose wife is a doctor, saw Hugh at Annaburg Manor with Hugh's parents, a brother and Michele Finn's sister.

"I explained to Hugh that I was there to try to stop Michele from withdrawing the feeding tube from him," Diamond said. "I then asked Hugh if he wanted me to fight to keep his feeding tube, and he nodded his head 'yes'.... It appeared to me that Hugh was not in a persistent vegetative state."

Virginia law forbids "any deliberate act or omission to end life other than to permit the natural process of dying." [Virginia Code 54.1-2990] Yet, a Prince William County judge permitted Hugh's fatal starvation. Withdrawal of food and water, may be challenged "on petition of any person to the circuit court." [Virginia Code 54.1-2986].

Gov. Gilmore went to court on Hugh's behalf because Virginia law mandates "the Governor may institute a law suit to protect ... citizens ... where he shall have determined that existing legal procedures fail to adequately protect existing legal rights and interests of such citizens."

Bob Marshall told Virginia's Health Secretary, a shunt draining fluid from Hugh's brain hadn't been checked; that a 1996 examination showed it might be blocked. But last year, Hugh's wife refused to let a doctor examine the shunt.

Excerpt from: http://www.websunlimited.net/marshall/1999Reportp4.htm