Posted on 03/30/2005 4:43:51 PM PST by wagglebee
A spokesman for the family of Terri Schindler Schiavo said Wednesday the Florida judge presiding over her case "ignores the state’s laws and orders the premeditated killing of a disabled Florida woman by her husband."
Pamela Hennessy, media director for the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation, in a press release Wednesday called on disability and eldercare advocates to press for Circuit Judge George Greer’s "immediate impeachment."
"If there is a single person following this who doesn’t believe Judge Greer has legislated from the bench, trampled Florida’s laws and deprived Terri Schiavo of her retained rights, they are simply not paying attention," Hennessy said in a statement.
According to the foundation’s press release, on Tuesday and Wednesday Greer issued three orders that the foundation said all but assures Schiavo’s death. First, Greer ordered that the family may not introduce oral nutrition and hydration following the removal of Terri’s gastric feeding tube.
The foundation pointed out that Florida Statute 744.3215 (Rights of Persons Determined Incapacitated) requires that incapacitated people cannot be deprived of food and water.
"Ordering that Terri Schiavo may not receive nutrition or hydration naturally is against the law, in the opinion of the Foundation," it said in a statement.
Second, according to the foundation, Greer ruled that no further neurological tests may be conducted on Terri, using functional MRI to determine if she is in a "persistent vegetative state," as Greer found in 2002, or if Terri is "minimally conscious."
The foundation pointed out that Florida Statute 765.404, which defines persistent vegetative state, requires that the condition be determined and diagnosed as permanent prior to the withdrawal of life-prolonging means. Also, Florida Statute 765.309 prevents mercy killing and assisted suicide.
The foundation said that unless the "true neurological condition of Terri Schiavo" was determined prior to the removal of the feeding tube, Greer’s order amounts to "a directive for her guardian to commit either a mercy killing or assisted suicide."
And third, "Greer denied an order from a judgment based on his error in dismissing pertinent testimony in 2000 that would assist the court in determining Terri Schiavo’s true end of life wishes," the foundation added.
It pointed to Florida Statute 765.404, which says that clear and convincing evidence of the ward’s intent for medical treatment must be established.
"The only evidence in support of removing Terri’s feeding tube was the self-serving hearsay testimony of her guardian (which is not admissible under FS 90.602) and hearsay from two members of his immediate family," the foundation said.
"Greer systematically ruled that testimony from Terri’s friends and family was unreliable or not credible. His failure to consider all evidence of Terri Schiavo’s attitude towards life-prolonging measures, in the Foundation’s opinion, is a clear violation of Florida Statutes," it concluded.
Guilty of unseemliness by grandtanding, eh?
NO. I'm not afraid of anything.
My opinion doesn't matter. I prefer to show restraint and dignity out of respect for Terri.
They seem to be able to visit.
You have your opinion. I have mine.
Even though Terri is being executed because of the lying testimony of THREE Schiavos, I have NEVER heard the SCHINDLERS respond in kind. The Schindlers are ALWAYS softspoken, polite and kind.
The SCHIAVOS are nothing but a bunch of clannish, lowlife, bullies and thugs who can't even comport themselves properly as a member of the SCHINDLER family who is very much loved lies STARVING and DEHYDRATING to death.
Anyone who can't see THAT is a FOOL.
When your daughter is dying, your place is at the bedside.
One of them is correct, and it isn't yours.
That's your opinion. Isn't it nice that we can all have one?
Suggest you call Judge Greer and beg him to tell you why.
They didn't have an IMPARTIAL judge. Otherwise, they would have prevailed.
I echo pan_yan's wife's thoughts.
Nitwit. Stick your theater of pain where ..
If he's so pure as the driven snow, then why did on Easter did he wait so late in the day to approve Communion for her? And why would such a fine upstanding man in the spotlight not allow it to begin with?
Unlike many of you here, I recognize that this situation is not mine to interfere in.
And I love those old folks so much that I want to dehydrate and starve them for the next fortnight.
And when your daughter is being killed, where is your place?
It's wherever you have to be to try to keep her alive.
This situation has run it's course. This impeachment thing will do nothing to keep her alive.
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