Posted on 03/20/2005 6:03:40 PM PST by FoxPro
This is an unprecedented session. The Congress is meeting to save one persons life (in real time).
The only reason the Democrats are agreeing to this is that they don’t want to be known as the party that killed Terri.
This is American history happening before your eyes.
Will Conyers stop whining.
Sensenbrenner put clarity into then Governor Bush's legislation in Texas. Thank God. Dems are a party of deciet and death.
Incidently, the term is PERSISTENT vegetative state. Not even medicine calls it "permanent," which is spelled permanEnt, by the way.
You know why not? Because medicine is inexact. There is a documented case of a person with better than normal intelligence who had NOTHING in the calvarium except CSF. That's cerebrospinal fluid, to you.
rw, where is the info about the other girlfriends and possible abuse? Where and when did Cindy Shook speak about this? I don't know enough about this case yet but I would also be dubious about Michael's trustworthiness.
Wow.
They are trolling here and advocating the "killing of the useless eater".
2nd amendment mama,Cole-R-Oklahoma sounds good-Terri is starving right now-my words.
Thanks.
"or if they find it difficult to pass a death sentence on an innocent lady."
This is just heresay, but I read on a thread earlier that DU was calling her different types of vegetables.
All:
Not enough have seen and UNDERSTAND the BATTLE BEHIND the BATTLE....
...There is an agenda with Greer etc. -- it's the case law "precedents" the would-be killers are trying to set for a larger euthanasia agenda. And THAT agenda is yet in the bigger anti-God, anti-sanctity-of-life agenda of totalitarians. Remove God, remove sanctity of life, consider people and their "God-Given rights" as property of the State and you have....1984. That's what's REALLY going on here.
1984. BRAVE NEW (COMMUNIST TOTALITARIAN) WORLD.
This is part of the Godless machinery to devalue life and make this NO LONGER a government OF, BY and FOR the PEOPLE. This is 'Brave New World' and '1984' totalitarian stuff, inhumane monsters hiding behind "law" playing God.
And from all the research Calpernia and others have posted, Greer probably thinks he IS God. The 'legally blind' issue is MOOT--Helen Keller was TOTALLY blind, deaf and mute--yet compassionate and humanitarian. Greer is sick and wicked and a tool being evilly used...KNOWINGLY.
If we re-frame the debate into a perspective of Culture of (Sanctity of) Life vs. Culture of Death, it would seem that FIRST we would seek to give nourishment to someone like this. It would seem that before we would 'pull the plug' we would also give access to OBJECTIVE PEOPLE who have no vested interest in Terri's life or death. It would seem--consider the amount of money invested to save seagulls and sea lions contaminated by tanker oil spills--we would make effort to rehabilitate somebody who has the fight, the spirit, the will to live.
Absolutely it is foolish--and costs increase geometrically--to try to continue human life to the 'cryogenic-and-hope-to-thaw' extreme. There are some who have been kept on life support whose brain (I am recalling from memory, not citing cases) had practically liquefied. This isn't compassion--this is denial. HOwever, I do NOT believe Terri is in this predicament. I believe there is a conspiracy among Greer, the HINO etc. to snuff this woman.
Let us all pray to God for wisdom and pray for ALL our leaders, elected and appointed, through somehow, God will work out His will. God is still sovereign; this is STILL One Nation, Under God.
TECHNOLOGY to help Terri:
One possible way to help Terri testify to Congress and write a needed BOOK about her ordeal, if God help her! she survives!
A computer mouse that is breathing-controlled, from the UK--
First Useable Breath-Controlled Writing System
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/development/breath/
There are MANY devices for the handicapped and learning-disabled that can be used to help Terri testify.
They have another version of it with a setting in Sri Lanka ~ that one is called the Ramayana.
There are also stories of an even earlier Messiah called Shiva.
Hinduism is exceedingly complex, of course, and can hardly be explained in a couple of sentences, but it's probably worth knowing that Moslems in Pakistan study the Mahabarata and the Ramayana because they are both great literature, they are the foundations of the national myths of all Indian people, AND, ta-da, they concern the Messiah!
Both are worth reading.
THe MRI actually show soft tissue injury which is what the brain is.Similarly PET tests.
If you're that interested please read at nationalreview.com an article entitled Starving For a Fair Diagnosis.(march 16th 2005).
EXCELLENT point! Well made and concise.
Please step this way.
Ignore those nozzles on the ceiling.
It is time for your delousing. Arbeit Mach Frei
He's probably a DUngeon-type from a sleeper-cell here at FR.
I was thinking about the same story myself...
You missed that lady from Florida and Chris Shays, Republicans advocating death by starvation when the patient hasn't left a written directive.
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