Posted on 03/20/2005 9:26:17 AM PST by Dane
Mother pleads for Terri Schiavo's life
MITCH STACY
Associated Press
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. - Hanging their hopes on a last-minute compromise in Congress, Terri Schiavo's parents notified her hospice to prepare to have her feeding tube reinserted on Sunday, her third day without food or water.
Congressional leaders from both parties hoped an agreement reached on a bill would allow the tube to be restored while federal courts review her case. The House and Senate were expected to take up the legislation by Sunday or early Monday. If passed, President Bush planned to sign it.
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But Mary Schindler pleaded for parents nationwide to call their congressional representatives and pressure them to vote for a bill to prolong her daughter's life.
"There are some congressmen that are trying to stop this bill," she said outside her daughter's hospice. "Please don't use my daughter's suffering for your own personal agenda."
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Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Fla., issued a statement late Saturday saying he will make an objection that would stop the vote Sunday. Any member can demand that a majority of members be present to do business. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., said he was trying to gather enough votes to defeat the bill Monday
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But GLA that door is not being opened. The sole purpose of the U.S. Congress intervening on behalf of Terri Schiavo is to save her life, not extinguish or manipulate it.
Link to floriduh voter's post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1365111/posts?page=3541#3541
If he had a chance for a full recovery, now if he was unable to walk as a family we can deal with that. If he was going to be say like Christopher Reeves was, I would be thrilled. But that did not happen.
George Felos is a student of Ira Byock, MD (a well known hospice physician) who advocates adding "aid in dying" (through terminal sedation) to the mix of "services" provided by hospices.
Byock is a big proponent of using "terminal sedation" to kill patients by sedating them into a coma and letting them dehydrate to death.
Felos has a long history of fighting for the right to kill patients (oh, should we say "right to die?") Right-to-kill organization "Compassion in Dying" directly cites Felos' efforts to kill Terri as an act of "compassion."
It's not precedent. Democrats, in cooperation with Bob Dole, have done such things before.
Just what are you getting at? That I made the wrong decision? That I am evil because I let him go? I loved that child more than anybody would know. I fought like hell to keep him alive.
It is the judicial upholding of this "narrow" law that sets the legal precedent.
Get ready for appeals to be made for federal review for everything under the sun.
With all due respect....
Most normal people would feel that same way. When I hear this argument I must roll my eyes.
So let me put it this way....
If I should suddenly end up in a retarded state (not vegetative, please note), and my husband files a lawsuit on my behalf ostensibly for my rehabilitation, and AFTER winning the money my husband suddenly remembers that I didn't want to live this way, AND my parents are willing to take care of me no cost to the state, AND my husband denies me therapy to learn how to swallow even though I swallow my own saliva no problem, AND my husbands takes up with some other women, having children with her, AND STILL demands that I die AND no one's investigated why my husband, a registered nurse, made no effort to resuscitate me when it happened, AND I have an unexplained fracture in my skull, AND an entire state legal system including the attorneys risk losing their funds if I don't die....hey
Do not pass go. Do not collect two hundred dollars, please let me live until someone NOT involved in terms of fees and campaign contributions takes up my cause. Appoint an attorney to represent me, investigate all the facets, UNSEAL the damn financial documents for why are they sealed?
Give me every opportunity and the same rights as John Couey and Scott Peterson.
Hey, these caveats are important. Because to state that "I would not want to live that way" is oversimplification of a case where a state judiciary is run amok and the politicians stand to lose financial support.
Notice the only Democrats out giving press conferences are the FLORIDA Dems. And why is this? Do you think they may lose the Florida trial lawyers support if they don't?
Because once I die there's no bringing me back to life. I ask now that anyone impacted please give me every benefit of the doubt, ALL OF THEM, before starving me to death.
If I've got to spell this out, than I shall.
You can always kill me. You cannot bring me back to life.
I don't know, but if they are trying to placate Wexler, Barney Frank, Jim Moran (the wife beater), et. al, I'm concerned about what they will come up with.
All right, I'll see "good starting point" and raise "may each of his forked tongues contract shigellosis; may he eat beans all day and sit on a hot stove; may wasps nest in his body hair; and may he go on the Terri Schiavo diet until he finds out what a vomit reflex he is."
well considering what some on THIS website have called Terri.. I don't think we can throw too many stones..
I've heard "lettuce" and "carrot" among other things..
There is no record of Terri's wishes. Period.
All we have is hearsay testimony--by Michael and his brother. I'll discount the brother, since he was not present when Terri made this alleged statement.
Let's assume that Michael is being absolutely truthful when he says that he remembers a conversation that took place 15 years ago where Terri said that she would not want to live "like that."
How do you ascertain what was actually said?
How can we know what she meant by "like that"?
How can we know that Michael remembers the conversation accurately?
Could the conversation have taken place, but it was not Terri who said it and Michael now thinks it was?
Could Michael have dreamed the conversation and now remembers it as real?
The human mind is very quirky when it comes to memory. That's a pretty insubstantial basis on which to determine whether a woman should be allowed to live or be killed. I'm of the very firm opinion that, unless there is objective and clear evidence otherwise--i.e., a written, notarized, witnessed, signed living will--we should default to life.
McGavin, you are out of line with your comment to Beeline.
'Let her go'? What if she doesn't want to go? She's been hanging in there for 15 years or more so her will to live is great. Feeding tubes don't force people to stay alive, they allow it if the person is otherwise healthy and has a will to live.
As for the so-called 'spouse' being the next of kin, the man shacks up with another woman and sired her children. He got a Court order preventing the parents from seeing Terri for a long time. And who has more love and concern for Terri, her FLESH AND BLOOD parents or her 'husband' who lives with another woman?
And are you aware that Terri's parents have been begging Michael Schiavo to divorce Terri so they can take her home and care for her? And that he flatly refuses? Do you know the FACTS of this case or do you just follow the corrupted media coverage?
You say fought hard to keep your child alive yet you wouold deny that right to Teri' parents and allow the husband who has emotionally abandoned her to have that right.
Well put
I guess you, like most liberals, think that if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes truth..
I love ya!
Great summary of the hole we are now in. It's so deep now, I don't think we are going to find a satisfactory way out of it and I fear for the future and what we are allowing in.
Go here and then scroll down to where it says ROUGH TIMELINE AND DECISIONS then scroll down to Feb 2000 and click on (READ) it is the Judges decision but it is in PDF and takes awhile to load 10 pages. If I recall what I read at the Judges conclusion he did basically throw out Terri's guardian ad litem statements. He also threw out statements by Terri's friends on what they said she wanted but listened to the in-laws.
In what way?
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