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.
The information about the comments by the Schiavo brothers is interesting. The public needs to know more about these "low-life, bullying" people. People have a hard time understanding issues unless there are heroes and villains. Terri and her parents and siblings -- above all her parents -- qualify as heroes. The Schiavos, not only Michael himself, increasingly look like villains. So let's get on with vilifying them. Terri's death is a near-certainty at this point. We need to focus now on winning the spin war, like the left always does.
"Don't mourn. Organize !"
I have no problem with that.
If Terri must die let her be a catalyst for change.
Translation:
I only care about myself.
I'm not saying anything. Unlike hundreds of others here, I know that my opinion doesn't matter.
My thoughts on this are my own and I do not feel the need to express them here.
The only opinion I am willing to give is that this is the time for the Schindlers to be left alone to focus on their daughter.
I would not want to be in the same room either.
I said nothing of the sort. You are making things up and name calling.
Just like a small child.
Bwahahahah.
She's a human being not a brain stem but nice try anyway. The godless will say anything.... sheesh. You failed the test and your breathing tube will be pulled in 30 seconds
I agree with that, but maybe not in the way you meant it.
The order, going beyond the withdrawal of the feeding tube to the forbidding of all attempts at feeding and hydrating Terri Schiavo, is murder under color of law just as surely as would be her death by the gun of a police officer under the plea she was threatening him.
"Didn't an 11th Cirsuit Appeals just write that too?"
You are the child. Your corrupt Pinellas County judges have killed Terri. BuhBye
Where did I say I supported the judges my dear?
Wouldnt it be ironic if he wound up with a tube in his gut. I'm not a biblical scholar but there is a passage about rejoicing in the death of evil ones.
Okay, I'm totally confused now
A truly absurd and preposterous suggestion. I will volunteer my professional service to defend Judge Greer from such an abomination if it should gain any traction----which it won't.
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