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Posted on 03/25/2005 12:17:45 AM PST by STARWISE
Judge George Greer ruled that the State of Florida has no right to take custody of Terri Schiavo, which ruling came hours after an appeal by Terri's parents to re-insert the feeding tube was refused by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, another hearing was scheduled tonight before US District Judge James D. Whittemore .. the same judge who previously heard and denied the request subsequent to the 'de novo' intention of the law past last weekend by the Congress and signed by President Bush, in an effort to confirm that no stone was left unturned before Terri would endure legally sanctioned dehydration until death.
Entemologists of the world unite!!!!!
Next on CNN, graveyards biased to conservative entemologists. Democrat bug doctors claim persecution by the religious right.
Fifteen years......and it's come to this.
Are they even in the room with her? I honestly don't know, does anyone?
The Medical Examiners Office is tight with Judge Greer. They won't order an autopsy because they don't want to go againt Greer's court order.
I already did. :)
Yes, I do. But we are supposed to be outraged by something like this. I know who wins in the end, praise God! But this is still maddening to us all and I think God wants us to feel this way. It isn't easy what God expects of us is it?...:-)
Greer has a reflex answer for every Schindler motion
DENIED
DENIED
DENIED
DENIED
DENIED
DENIED
DENIED
DENIED
DENIED
I don't want ANYONE feeding that girl.
The law of this case is that she will die
"What about Laura Bush? Where's the First Lady in all this? If the Bush boys don't have the gumption and are too afraid of getting empeached, Laura certainly doesn't have to worry over any of that. Laura should have been out 24/7 telling the truth about Terri and the media would have fallen all over themselves beggin to get a quote.
I'm very diappointed in the entire Bush family."
Laura Bush has always been pro-"choice," just like Barbara Bush. I did read, though, that she MIGHT be leaning more pro-life than she was.
I just called the National Republican Party Committee, and when I pressed #1 for comments the box was full, so a lot of folks must be disgusted with them.
So, since #1 was full I pressed #3 (Communications). I told them (answering machine) I'm not from the press, but #1 was full, & I am just a regular registered Republican.
I said that the Republican Party was losing it's soul; BOTH President Bush and Governor Bush could have saved Terri Schiavo; Judge Greer is a Republican, and so is Governor Pataki in my state, a pro-abort; and then there's California.
I also told them it's time for a third party.
I left my first name and phone #, but know they will never call.
If anyone wants to call the national Republican Party, their phone # is 202-863-8500.
They need to know that they have to walk the walk, not just talk the talk, and supporting politicians like Greer, when he was cruel to Terri BEFORE his 2004 reelection, is not walking the walk.
I am so angry and sad, but mostly my heart goes out to Terri's family. I'm still hoping for a miracle, and, of course, still praying. I think I'll send the Bush brothers another e-mail to let them know we won't forget this cowardness.
Although I'm extremely angry, I will be honest and say that President Bush has done a lot for the life issue, such as not giving money to the U.N. for abortions, et al.
But was that just politics?
We shall see when it comes time to pick a judicial nominee for the Supreme Court.
Maybe the Bush brothers are pro-life but don't have the courage of their convictions.
How would they like it if it were their loved one, and politicians that could help did not.
Welcome to Free Republic, and the Terri threads!
Very partial to your screen name! :o)
Well, since Jesus Himself threw the tables to the ground in the Temple....I'd say righteous anger is OK.
Parents Keep Watch Over Dying Schiavo
March 26, 2005
MITCH STACY, Associated Press Writer
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. - After another round of losses in the courts, Terri Schiavo's parents kept watch over their dying daughter Saturday, trying in vain to give her Easter communion as their attorneys acknowledged the fight to reconnect the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube was nearing an end.
Attorneys for Bob and Mary Schindler decided not to file another motion with a federal appeals court, essentially ending their effort to persuade federal judges to intervene — something allowed by an extraordinary law passed by Congress.
Late Saturday, the Florida Supreme Court (news - web sites) dismissed a request from the parents' attorney to have their daughter's feeding tube reinserted, turning aside an emergency petition arguing that a Pinellas County judge ignored new evidence of Schiavo's wishes and her medical condition.
At least two more appeals loomed by the state and Gov. Jeb Bush, but those challenges were before the state 2nd District Court of Appeal, which has rebuffed the governor's previous efforts in the case.
Family supporters said Schiavo's breathing became increasingly labored during the day. An attorney for the Schindlers, Barbara Weller, said hospice workers began giving morphine to Schiavo to ease pain brought on by her body's failure.
Schiavo's husband, Michael, has said she would not want to be kept alive artificially. The Schindlers believe their daughter could improve and say she laughs, cries, responds to them and tries to talk.
Weller said Terri cried when her mother hugged her Saturday night. "She knows what's going on. She was trying to vocalize something with Mary."
"The governor should know that Terri still knows who her mother is, and she's extremely distressed," Weller said. "She's not a vegetable who doesn't know what is happening."
Paul O'Donnell, a Roman Catholic Franciscan monk, said the family unsuccessfully urged Michael Schiavo to allow his wife the sacrament of communion during the holiest feast of the Catholic year. She received last rites the day the feeding tube was pulled.
"This is in violation of her religious rights and freedoms and allows the governor to ... intervene," O'Donnell said, repeating the family's request that the governor take Schiavo into protective custody. "We beg you to have courage and take action."
The family had asked for Schiavo, who cannot swallow, to have a minuscule piece of bread and a drop of wine placed in her mouth.
Earlier, Pinellas Circuit Judge George Greer rejected the family's latest motion. The family claimed Schiavo tried to say "I want to live" hours before her tube was removed, saying "AHHHHH" and "WAAAAAAA" when asked to repeat the phrase.
Doctors have said her previous utterances weren't speech, but were involuntary moans consistent with someone in a vegetative state. Greer agreed.
Scott Schiavo, the brother of Schiavo's husband said the family was pleased to see the Schindlers' efforts nearing an end.
"He knows in his heart he is doing the right thing, he is doing what Terri wanted," Scott Schiavo said. "He's having a hard time understanding why people are fighting him on this, why they are calling him a murderer. It's very tough on him."
Doctors have said she would probably die within a week or two of her feeding tube being pulled, which was done March 18 after Greer sided with her husband. Her body wracked by dehydration, attorneys for her parents said she may not last through the weekend.
"She's doing remarkably well under the circumstances," said Schiavo's father, Bob Schindler, after visiting her inside the hospice Saturday afternoon. "She has put up a tremendous battle to live. She's not throwing in the towel."
Michael Schiavo's attorney, George Felos, denied reports by the parents' attorneys that her tongue and eyes were bleeding.
"She is calm. She is peaceful. She is resting comfortably," Felos told reporters Saturday as four sheriff's deputies stood by to protect him.
Terri Schiavo's brother, Bobby Schindler, called that "absurd" and challenged Felos to allow videos and photos to be released, so the public can see Terri's condition. "They're mischaracterizing the condition today, just as they have been ... It's sick. It's heinous," he said.
Felos said earlier that allowing videos to be recorded inside Terri Schiavo's room during her death process would violate her privacy rights.
Outside the hospice, about 60 protesters maintained a subdued vigil and, like her parents, hoped for a miracle. Some said they believed it was not a coincidence that the woman would lay dying during the Easter weekend.
Late Saturday the Schindlers asked protesters to go home to celebrate Easter with their families.
"Be with your children. Hold them close and cherish every moment you have with them," O'Donnell said, speaking for the couple. "Tomorrow, as we celebrate Easter, they pray that you gather in the churches of your own denomination and, if you would, offer a prayer for their daughter."
Schiavo was reared in the Roman Catholic church, and her parents have made heavy use of her faith as the basis for the numerous appeals to reinsert the feeding tube that was removed more than a week ago.
The Schindlers have argued, for instance, that she should be spared based on statements by Pope John Paul (news - web sites) II that people in vegetative states have a right to nutrition and hydration. They say Terri would have obeyed the pope and would not choose to have her tube removed. That argument was rebuffed in the state courts.
Terri Schiavo has been without food and water longer than she was in 2003, when the tube was removed for six days before Gov. Jeb Bush pushed through a law to have it reinserted. The law was later thrown out by the state Supreme Court.
Many supporters of the Schindlers say Bush could simply ignore the courts and take emergency custody of Schiavo. But Bush, himself a convert to Roman Catholicism, has said he's not willing to go beyond the boundaries of his powers.
Terri Schiavo suffered brain damage in 1990 when her heart stopped briefly from a chemical imbalance believed to have been brought on by an eating disorder. She left no living will.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/brain_damaged_woman
RE: 3866 in show only
Actually the popular MRS made this same comment to his pal Larry King, another Jew who does not understand that this is indeed a latter-day extension of the Holocaust.
man.. being human really stinks sometimes...
Incredible, isn't it.
As those who defend Jeb Bush's inactions stating that it would be a "Constitutional Crisis", I say they are as guilty of exaggeration and hysterics as those who say Jeb Bush is "Pontius Pilate".
Both stances are extreme, Jeb is neither Pontius Pilate, but only lacked the rare courage to go further, that's the only thing he is guilty of AFAIK, Nor is America going to spin off it's axis and come to a grinding halt had Jeb stepped in and relieved Terri from an immoral ruling by a probate judge.
He could have but he didn't, wish to God he did. I'm still praying in the 12th hour.
Sounds like the last line of verse 2 of A Bird in a Barren Cage (song with lyrics, sheet music, and audio).
Amen. Lord I agree with Pegita in prayer. Protect Terri from feeling alone and abandoned. May she know without a doubt the love of her family, and may she somehow feel the love of thousands upon thousands of people who have a special place in their hearts for her and who will never forget her. Most of all may she feel Your abundant love. Place your angels all around her bed tonight, Lord, and may Your arms cradle her close. Give her a restful and peaceful night. We ask in Jesus' Name.
Amen to that!
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