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Posted on 03/17/2005 5:58:41 PM PST by tutstar
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Does anyone know where FV is?
Last I heard she was at a vigil.
You are right...we will carry on the fight and Terri's tube will be re-inserted ;)
Hubby just heard on the radio that DeLay has ordered the tube to be reinserted. Anyone hear anything like this??
WHAT?? Please let it be true.
does anyone know what happened to the press conference the Shindlers were supposed to have.
They cancelled it.
This is a Constitutional Crisis!
Now is the time for faith. Now is the time
to let go and let God...
he will work a miracle for all to see. He will.
Our prayers and Terri's will to live will not be ignored.
God Bless all.
Bumping your post.
Delay on Hannity right now.
A Fl Representative's explanation of her NO vote.
Dear Concerned Citizen,
Thank you for writing to me regarding HB 701 and Terry Schaivo. I voted against the bill for several reasons. Because there was a lack of communication with experts in the fields of medicine, law, and ethics on the creation of this bill I tried to pull in information for several different resources. One of those resources was the University of Miami. According to the University of Miami Ethics Program, HB 701 has problems on several fronts, some of which are listed below:
In 1999, the Legislature created a Panel for the Study of End-of-Life Care. This bipartisan, interfaith panel held town meetings around the state and took testimony and expert advice from a broad range of Floridians. As a result of this process, Florida Statute 765 was changed in a number of ways that were regarded as positive. This set the standard for revisions of statute in this complex area. HB 701 appears to embody little such caution, process and community and expert input.
The bill would impose impossible burdens on physicians and patient surrogates, proxies and guardians. It would do this by establishing a standard for refusal of treatment that cannot in many circumstances be met. Paradoxically, it could lead to patients not receiving artificial hydration and nutrition when it might provide temporary help -- out of fear that once it is started it will not be possible under statute to stop it.
The bill would establish insurmountable barriers to Floridians' exercise of uncontroversial rights to refuse burdensome medical treatment. That is, it has been settled in medicine, law, ethics and most faith traditions that the right to refuse treatment is essential to the full exercise of autonomy. HB 701 undermines that process.
The measure misjudges the medical nature of artificial nutrition and hydration and the ethical issues involved in withholding and withdrawing such interventions. Even if HB 701 were somehow correct, it would prove too much. Why stop at medically provided artificial hydration and nutrition? Why not include ventilator support, dialysis or any other medical procedure or intervention?
This tragic incident should make all of us to be more careful and vigilant in letting our true wishes be known to our family members in cases such as this.I believe the state should not be involved in solving family problems and I wish her parents and husband could come to an agreement. Any action taken by the state will have far reaching effects upon every Floridian.
Thank you again for writing to me.
Sincerely,
Shelley Vana
Florida State Representative
District 85
DeLay can't order the tube to be reinsurted himself. He has to get a judge to do it.
Anybody get pictures of Jodi the w***e?
That is all she is. She will rot in hell too.
These people don't care because they have CHOSEN hell.
I am upset that no in is intervening to get Terri out of there.
I am moving from Florida in 3 months. I am mever looking back.
I am moving to Austin Texas or Colorado Springs. Already decided.
I don't want to ever tell anyone I lived her.
God help us all.
Yes, He will. One way or another.
The things He has motivated us to do, thru faith; and the places He's motivated us to go, thru faith - are part of His miracle. As are what he may motivate us to do in the future. I'm sure of it.
"I recall an incident when Olga became very upset because Terri started to get a sore spot, because it might lead to a bedsore. Michael was told about it but didn’t seem to care. He didn’t complain about it all, in fact, saying “she doesn’t know the difference.” When Terri would get a UTI or was sick, Michael’s mood would improve."- Cna H. Law 1997
Thank you for your kind word reaffirming my faith because I am crying right now.
I can't stop.
Lord help us please!
"For once I'm glad the computer is not in the same room as the TV."
Then you didn't have the pleasure of throwing things at him. ;) Really a despicable man.
Florida is as black as hell to me right now.
I live here, and it has an aura of evil.
This does not include the goodness I feel eminating from Free Republic, FReepers, and everyone else who supports Terri.
The evil I feel is from people who live in this state who have refused to acknowledge what is going on.
Next time it will be them.
They should have gotten on the air and blasted this process. I am sickened that they did not take this opportunity to tell the world just how sick this process is. Why on earth would they cancel it.
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