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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Add Felos and ready to add Wexler's photo to that, Also every guard at the Hospice and avery doctor and nurse there.
That mercy started to be removed off Roe Vs Wade. This nation was given so long to repent, yet we continue to piss in God's face. Pardon my French, but the reality is that stark.
I agree. This is a family matter period.
They've lost their minds.
We're not welcome to have an opposite point of view, so that is how it is here?
so it begins
As I watched the police put on a bullet-proof vest on the monster who killed little Jessica, I was reminded of what how wrong things have gone in our society.
My prayers for Terri and the Schindler family. We should all be watching these proceedings very closly, and keep track of which politicians choose LIFE for Terri, rather than an excruciatingly painful death by starvation.
If one comes to a discussion without the basic facts, they are asking for it.
We don't name call on this site..
The problem here is that these state court judges in Florida have not handled this case properly. They've made numerous apalling errors and there may be corruption and bribery involved here. This kind of case belongs in Federal court where it can get a proper hearing with appropriate legal guidelines. That may also be true of death penalty cases where numerous people have been erroneously convicted of capital crimes. Just wait until someone in your family is on trial for their life in some corrupt rural country and your family member is being wrongly convicted and killed by a single judge. What will you say then? It's easy to let someone else's daughter be killed by one thug in a black robe.
Government in action:
The House will come to order! We will stand in recess, subject to recall of the Chair.
I have the basic facts and I disagree with you.
Recess?
Follow the money....
We have an estranged husband who stands to collect million(s) from his ex-wife's estate, provided he can find a friendly judge to execute the death sentence on said ex-wife (I refuse to call him a husband).
Ex-husband's testimony is PURELY heresay evidence, but for some unknown reason, judge declares it accurate. TERRI LEFT NO WRITTEN INSTRUCTIONS. According to my old course in contracts, a contract is Not executable without witnesses and signatures of the principals. Michael "says" he heard her say she wanted to die. (Very convenient, eh?)
In the meantime, ex-wife's family says they'll take their daughter and care for her themselves.
What part of **LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS** do you not get? If our government cannot protect us who can? And who will? Democrats?? I think not.
Terri ping! If anyone would like to be added to or removed from my Terri ping list, please let me know by FReepmail!
The Federal legislature has no business in this matter,
But a judge DOES get the last say??????? That dog don't hunt.
If the greedy, *&^% man who still claims to be married (while common-law married to another with children) to Terri would let her family take care of her, it would never have gotten to this point.
If the parents agreed with the husband in name only, I don't think this life or death battle would be an issue now.
19 judges so it must be right?
The issue to me is not whether she lives or dies... I agree that one life is not worth messing up constitutional powers for, but it is the way in which they are killing her. It is beyond "cruel and unusual" to inflict a starvation death upon someone. Have you ever seen anyone die via starvation? I have relatives who have died that way (one w/stomach cancer, one thanks to Canada's medical system). It is indiscribably cruel to "fade away" so slowly.
If this is the alternative I will become a conservative FOR Oregon's euthenasia laws!
Democrats decide to sit in the House and try to continue Terri's starvation.
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