Posted on 03/17/2005 9:58:21 PM PST by JeffMBattle
Per front page of Drudge
**Exclusive Fri Mar 18 2005 00:50:07 ET** The Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pension (HELP) Committee, Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming) has requested Terri Schiavo to testify before his congressional committee, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. In so doing it triggers legal or statutory protections for the witness, among those protections is that nothing can be done to cause harm or death to this individual.
It does too apply. When all of us were born, we couldn't feed ourselves but that wouldn't mean that starving us to death wasn't murder. If my parents had refused to feed my brother when he was born because he couldn't feed himself, they would've been arrested for murder. Why is it that liberals would scream bloody murder at a dog being starved to death but when a judge and a "husband" are trying to starve a woman to death, she has a "right to die"?
Who is 'the court?'
Gosh, kimmie, let's not get carried away.......LOL. But thanks.
I can't wait for the Emily's List wing of FR to tell us how this means Terri should be exectued by the Florida courts.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Florida couldn't get the 2000 election right, so why would I think the people in the Courts down there would get this right.
They are not pulling a respirator from someone comotose who could not live without it -- they are pulling a feeding tube -- big difference IMHO. I have pretty much stayed off these threads, but what they are doing to starve this woman to death is flat out wrong. Her husband has a total Conflict of Interest and should be banned from having anything further to do with her or her care.
"Give the FMRI, that will determine what her brain state is. Oh I forgot Michael will NOT allow one. I wonder why????"
Perhaps because giving her a fMRI when she has a brian stimulator implant is not such a good idea ?
Sounds like the description of a blind date!!
"well......she's got a GREAT intellect!" :)
Why is it from a factual point of view? Because her "husband" convinced the judge to kill her?
I don't think we disagree on the basic "facts" of this case; I am pretty upset about the Congress getting involved.
If you think the baseball hearings sucked, wait till you see this.
Makes her own clothes, all that. :-)
Thanks BMW
is that an 840si
a 2-stroke
or a Bloody Mean Witch?
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I have too. But this has gone too far.
Amen to both points!
Can a tomato smile at her mother?
i am not upset about that, the first thing xshub said was why hasn't there been a private bill passed to save her. We are Catholic and i see a big difference between this case and that which we had with my SIL, and both of my parents. Food and hydration are medical care not life support.
"Just saw Bill Frist talking about how she should have a complete neurological examination."
So lets see, the doctors inmplanted that gizmo in her head years ago WITHOUT giving her an examination
IF THIS GIZMO IS IN HER HEAD, IS IT SAFE FOR HER TO HAVE AN MRI???
As others have pointed out, she is still breathing on her own, she moves etc. The brain is not dead.
Delay speaking now about the bill and Terri.
Michael Schiavo and George Felos are crapping their pants right about now . . . not to mention Judge Greer. This is GREAT!!!!!!!!!!
R1100RTA
Okay..........let me rephrase my question. I understand that you can ask a question of a paralyzed person and they can respond by blinking, yes or no. That is more of what I meant.
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