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Friday, March 18, 2005
DeLay: Terri Schiavo is Alive This Fight Is Not Over; House Continues to Work to Save Terri Schiavo
WASHINGTON House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) today delivered the following remarks at a press availability on the House of Representatives efforts to save the life of Terri Schiavo.
It is now one oclock on the East Coast, the time preordained by a Florida state judge to allow for denial of food and water to Terri Schiavo. This act of barbarism can be, and must be, prevented. The Senate has before it the Protection of Incapacitated Persons Act of 2005. This bill is the right thing to do. Unfortunately, they have chosen to adjourn rather than pass it.
Those senators responsible for blocking the bill yesterday afternoon, Senators Boxer, Wyden, and Levin, have put Mrs. Schiavos life at risk to prove a point an unprecedented profile in cowardice. The American people are not interested in squabbles between Republicans and Democrats, or between the House and Senate. They care, and we care, about saving Terri Schiavos life. The House bill will do that.
Terri Schiavo is alive. She is not barely alive. She is not being kept alive. She is as alive as you or I, and as such we have a moral obligation to protect and defend her from the fate premeditated by the Florida courts. This is not over. We are still working, so are Mrs. Schiavos lawyers, and so is the Florida state legislature. This is not over.
To friends, family, and millions of people praying around the world this Palm Sunday weekend: do not be afraid. Terri Schiavo will not be forsaken.