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FAMILY SPOKESPERSON: SCHIAVO FEEDING TUBE REMOVED!
Bay News 9 ^ | 3/18/05

Posted on 03/18/2005 12:18:38 PM PST by areafiftyone

A spokesperson for Michael Schiavo says Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was removed Friday with Michael in attendance.

He says a prayer service was held first, and that Michael was emotional and crying, saying he wanted to put the situation behind him.

Terri Schiavo's parents, the Schindlers, visited with Terri Friday morning, prior to the tube's removal.

Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court Judge George Greer denied two U.S. House of Representative emergency motions Friday, which allowed the tube's removal.

The first motion was to intervene in the case for the House Committee on Government Reform and the second motion was to push the date back nine days so it could conduct what it calls a field investigation concerning the healthcare of Schiavo.

A neurologist appeared at Terri Schiavo's Pinellas Park hospice center Friday with a TV screen to show video of patients he treated that were in worse condition than Schiavo and got better.


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KEYWORDS: cultofdeath; cultureofdeath; helpterri; lifelibertyhappiness; murder; protectterri; schiavo; secularhumanism; terri; terrischiavo
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To: areafiftyone

Congress is going to appeal to a higher court in Florida; Greer just flat is ignoring them.


61 posted on 03/18/2005 12:33:07 PM PST by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: El_Doctor

No, she starves to death slowly.


62 posted on 03/18/2005 12:33:11 PM PST by jerri
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To: stevio
It's still not over.

It will never be over. This is one more battle in the war between pro and anti-life that will go on until good triumphs or the USA ceases to exist as a civilized society.

It's OK to kill partially born infants-even as they emerge from their mother's birth canal and it's OK to starve a sick woman to death.

Life is a seamless garment. Deny it and allow the murder of some and it all starts to erode, inexorably.

America just took one more step along the road to barbarism.

63 posted on 03/18/2005 12:33:32 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: fml

Is the feeding tube being removed or is it being clamped? There is a difference in terms of how easy it is to restart feeds. If it is clamped, then simply unclamping the tube will allow the feed to continue. If it is actually removed, the hole from her skin surface on the abdomen to the stomach will begin to close quickly. It will close in a matter of a couple of days. To put the tube back in in that situation involves a surgical procedure.


64 posted on 03/18/2005 12:33:39 PM PST by Ravi
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To: StAnDeliver

My prediction -- the tube is restored by Tuesday a.m., and Terri is none the worse for the wear. And then we shall see what we shall see...


65 posted on 03/18/2005 12:33:41 PM PST by StAnDeliver
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To: areafiftyone
He says a prayer service was held first, and that Michael was emotional and crying, saying he wanted to put the situation behind him.

And, we all know this situation is all about poor Michael. How hard this must be on him. Puh-LEEZE.

66 posted on 03/18/2005 12:33:49 PM PST by TChris (Lousy homophobic FReeper troll, religious right, VRWC member)
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To: areafiftyone

How could they have found such a cowardly doctor co-murderer so fast and so eager to remover Terry's tube?


67 posted on 03/18/2005 12:33:57 PM PST by harpo11
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To: All
FROM MSNBC;

Schiavo feeding tube reported removed Senate, House Republican leaders had tried to intervene

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. - The feeding tube for Terry Schiavo, a seriously brain-damaged woman, was removed Friday, her husband's attorney told NBC News, after a protracted battle between Michael Schiavo and the woman's parents, who argued for her to remain alive.

You can read the rest if you click on the title link.

68 posted on 03/18/2005 12:34:00 PM PST by areafiftyone (The Democrat's Mind: The Hamster's dead but the wheel's still spinning!)
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To: areafiftyone

Finally. Hope she goes quickly before more people try to "save" her. Poor woman.


69 posted on 03/18/2005 12:34:03 PM PST by Sandy
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To: Sandy

>>>Finally. Hope she goes quickly before more people try to "save" her. Poor woman.

I wish the same for you.


70 posted on 03/18/2005 12:34:45 PM PST by Keith in Iowa (Common Sense is an Oxymoron)
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To: areafiftyone

This Judge Greer is not God. He mocks God. he should b removed from the bench.

How can he defy an order of Congress and blatantly follow his own will?

We have to stop judicial activism, or none of us will have the right to life, after what Greer has gotten away with.

He reminds me so much of the Nazi judges who decided which lives were "devoid of value", according to their diabolical plans.


71 posted on 03/18/2005 12:34:53 PM PST by Palladin (Proud to be a FReeper!)
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To: LYSandra

Where does he work?


72 posted on 03/18/2005 12:35:01 PM PST by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: areafiftyone

As I said on another thread that was pulled, someone should execute a citizen's arrest on the judge and Schiavo.


73 posted on 03/18/2005 12:35:17 PM PST by WinOne4TheGipper (Every time I doubt my sanity, I take a quick look at DU and I'm all better. YEEEAAARRRGGGHH!!!)
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To: Cicero

"removing and reinstalling the feeding tube is a difficult matter, not just a simple matter of pulling it out and putting it back."

Depends on the type of feeding tube. Most likely she had a G-tube; tube is inserted directly into her stomach through the abdomen via a stab wound. There are some that are inserted via the eosophagus and into the stomach and out throught the abdomen. They are not difficult to re-insert through the abdomen if it's a simple G-tube. A balloon holds it in place. I have re-inserted them myself. The longer the tube is out, the more difficult it comes to re-insert as the abdominal opening will begin to shrink and close on it's own.


74 posted on 03/18/2005 12:36:05 PM PST by pies
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To: Sandy

You better pull on the ol' Nomex...


75 posted on 03/18/2005 12:36:29 PM PST by lugsoul (Until at last I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountainside.)
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To: areafiftyone

I don't want her to experience pain, but, on one level, I do wish she would live as long as possible to make clear to these monsters what they are doing.


76 posted on 03/18/2005 12:36:39 PM PST by wouldntbprudent ("Tell the truth. The Pajama People are watching you.")
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To: Ravi

Good points, I don't know yet. The tube has been removed and replaced already, twice now if I remember correctly.


77 posted on 03/18/2005 12:37:03 PM PST by fml
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To: El_Doctor

No, it will take up to a week, or longer.

Last time they pulled this, she lived 6 days before being rushed to the emergency room.


78 posted on 03/18/2005 12:37:14 PM PST by Lexinom
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To: Mark in the Old South

Yeah, that's my question: on what basis did the judge rule that he could ignore a congressional subpoena?


79 posted on 03/18/2005 12:37:17 PM PST by wouldntbprudent ("Tell the truth. The Pajama People are watching you.")
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To: harpo11
Easily, they had the "Doctor" standing by already in place to remove the tube A.S.A.P. after Judge Kevorkian made his pronouncement.

Money always overrules medical ethics these days.
80 posted on 03/18/2005 12:37:19 PM PST by Dr.Zoidberg (This tagline brought to you by Islam. Islam, only the best of the 12th century for you and yours.)
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