Posted on 03/23/2005 2:34:59 PM PST by gopwinsin04
State officials say they are considering removing Terri Schiavo from hospice, by force if necessary, despite numerous court orders upholding the removal of the artificial nutrition tube that has kept her alive for 15 years.
Lucy Hadl, secretary of the Department of Children and Families, said Wednesday morning that her staff is relying on a state law that gives the department the authority to intervene on behalf of a vulnerable adult who is 'suffering from abuse or neglect that presents a risk of death or serious physical injury.'
Hadl said that the DCF would have to file a petition in order to remove Schiavo, but that 'it doesn't mean we'd have to have judicial approval in advance of taking the action if we believed it met the threshold for doing it.'
Hadl said that seven years of court rulings backing Schiavo's husband Michael, in his contention that Terri Schiavo did not wish to be kept alive artificially would not stop the DCF from taking action.
'We're not compelled to look at prior judicial proceedings,' Hadl said.
What we are compelled to look at is the presenting circumstances and any allegiations of abuse and neglect that we have recieved. So we have to deal with those and fufill out statutory responsibility.'
(Excerpt) Read more at palmbeachpost.com ...
You may not like it but it is what it is...
Hey, Jimmy, you are so knowledgeable about "Terri's will"; when did she ask to be dehydrated over weeks.
And when did she say "I want my husband to live with another woman" - was that one of her wishes also? You appear to be an expert on what she wanted. And also when did she say she wanted her parents to be treated like garbage by her husband? Gee Michael must be pretty nice to be giving Terri everything she wanted.
There. Much better...
OK; when did she know that when the adulterer (ie, a man who broke his contract with her) and her discussed the situation.
Sorry but she did.
Show us the documents attesting to Terri's wishes, signed by Terri herself, preferably witnessed. In short, legally binding, acceptable evidence attesting to Terri's wishes. If you do, all this controversy will go away.
What's that? Don't got 'em? Well, like I thought, you're just another death lover who wants Terri dead. Well, the way things are going, you'll get your chance to dance on Terri's grave. Maybe Michael will invite you to the party and you can raise a glass to toast the success of murdering her.
Sorry, that doesn't cut it...because she does not have the mental abilities you or the law thinks she should have does not mean she is dying. Glad you are not my next of kin...
What is the IQ cut off?
She is not a vegetable--terms such as that dehumanize her and makes it easy to call for her death.
Look at Terri. Look at her body. Considering she has not seen the light of day in five years and the lack of treatment & therapy her husband is responsible for, she looks damned good. I'd say her will to live is rather strong.
It is sad to see so many adults lose total control of their senses.
/scarasm on/
Heck let's just bury them alive. They can't feel it anyway. Shoot their brain dead they wouldn't know the difference. This is what they would have wanted, they wouldn't want to live this way.
/scarasm off/
This is what I hear, when people think it is ok to starve brain damaged individuals.
Of course, these are the findings of the famed Florida judicial system, the very one that ratified the electoral fraud in Palm Beach and Broward Counties in 2000 that, had the U.S. Supreme Court not overturned the Florida courts, would have placed Al Gore, a man more radical than Bill or even Hillary Clinton, in the Oval Office.
The only testimony that Terri Schiavo wished to die came from Michael Schiavo. For numerous reasons, including statements in sworn testimony that allege he said "when is that b____ gonna die"; his boasts of what he would do with the insurance money he would receive upon Terri's death; his refusal to allow nursing home personnel to provide occupational, speech, and physical therapy; his intimidation of staff members who tried to help; his refusal to allow medication such as antibiotics; and his common law relationship with another woman by whom he has fathered two children, Michael Schiavo's statements regarding Terri's wishes cannot be reasonably accepted.
But I do not believe the liberal media. You evidently do.
Let's just hope that Bush can send in some heavily armed federal agents and brake down the doors of the hospice and put that tube back in so Terri can go back living a productive and fulfilling life full of balloon watching and staring at the ceiling for 15 more years. Sounds great!!
I'm just glad that Terri is finally getting her wish.
Terri sends her love and says thanks. "Thanks for prolonging my horrible excuse of a life for your own sense of values and morality."
Her bulimia is irrelevant; his adultery is relevant.
Take a look at this mess.
I am sorry you lost your husband, and it is good that the Hospice staff could give comfort to your son.
And that is their mission, but here,at Suncoast Hospice, Terri has been a resident for five years.She did not meet the criteria of a Hospice patient, she was not terminal,is not terminal now if she was not being starverd to death.
It is this Hospice that has allowed this, it is this Hospice that is allowing the media circus in front of the Hospice, it is this Hospice that is not giving good careor respect to the rest of its patients, or to their relatives and loved ones.It is their fault if the other patients and patients and families are being disrupted
I am too. That the state would sanction the death of a woman guilty of nothing more than being a drain on the state (and a possible liability to her 'guardian') based upon Michael's intrepretation (condemnation) of her 'wishes' is troubling.
Janet Reno IS here (in spirit, in government) and will see to it that Terrie dies no less than the Waco 81. This woman has been without food or water since Friday morning. Today is Wednesday.
bttt
AMEN!!! Please don't feed the trolls!
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