Posted on 03/24/2005 4:45:17 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
A federal court hearing has started in one of the last effort attempts by Terri Schiavo's parents to restore their daughter's feeding tube.
But the judge already has turned down the parents once. Bob and Mary Schindler are asking for an emergency order to reinsert the feeding tube in the brain-damaged woman.
The hearing in Tampa is before U.S. District Judge James Whittemore. He turned the Schindlers down once, as did a federal appeals court and the Supreme Court. A state judge, a state appeals court and the Florida Supreme Court also have all come down on the side of the husband, who wants to let his wife die after 15 years in what some doctors call a vegetative state.
The latest defeat for the Schindlers was today when a state judge said he won't go along with Governor Jeb Bush's request to order the feeding tube reinserted. The governor had said that new allegations of abuse of Terri Schiavo need to be investigated. The governor also tried to challenged the diagnosis that Terri Schiavo is in a persistent vegetative state.
You shouldn't have done that PKM.
Got my Italrish temper going now.
LOL!!! Guess we will hang around and see who is charge of the coup!
No,,,Jim got a "cooooo",,he is having a good time so quit pinging him talking about coupes and coups.
The marriage is irrelevant. The relevant question is whether Terri would choose to stop food and water intake, if she was able to make the decision. The court has ruled (wrongly, IMO), based on testimonial evidence, that these are Terri's wishes. He husband testified, but so did at least 4 others. Her husband, Michael, Michael's brother, Scott, and Scott's wife all testified that Terri had seen her grandmother hooked up to machinery, dying, and said "I don't want to die like that." Terri's mother, and siblings, and IIRC, at least one friend testified that they never heard Terri express a wish for DNR, and in fact, had on occasion expressed outrage that Karen Ann Quinlan was forced off a respirator. The SChiavo's testimony was ruled "clear and convincing," and the results are playing out on a national stage.
Amen!
You wouldn't know fraud if it went upside your head with a 2X4, dipwad.
Take your scarastic, snide remarks about Bush the "fire department guy" and stick em where the sun don't shine.
Stopped myself from posting what I really thought! Unbelieveable!
Sounds kinda pervy.
Best bet is to follow the thread. I usually post 10-120 minutes behind the curve ;-)
Just heard a suspicious package found outside federal courthouse in florida. no other news.
some of the good folks, especially self-proclaimed "Christians" on these forums might remember their leader's comment "render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's ...."
Jeb Bush was elected to uphold the Constitution and the laws of Florida. Not the laws of Florida that he likes. He attempted in every way possible within the law to save Terri, and is to this moment working for ways to save her ... those who judge him should not do so, lest they be judged.
Jan 20 2009
The newly elected President of the United States
gets ready to take his/her oath of office.
He/She puts a hand on a "living will"
God was left behind, Easter Week 2005
As was an innocent victim who
was starved and denied drink to death.
IF Terri ONLY had been a criminal she would have been saved.
No need to insult or lecture me. Cease and Desist or I shall ping my friends.
You are not talking about checks and balances.
Yes. Can't you just TASTE the nefarious intrigue!
I agree with you.
thanks for the response..I appreciate the input.
I had to go outside and scream when I read that one!
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