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To: general_re
Nutrition and hydration via a feeding tube is, under Florida law. Perhaps that law should be changed, but that's the law the courts had to work with here.

They also had Article One, Section Two of the Florida constitution to 'work with'.

But they, and you, continue to act as if it doesn't exist, along with the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that it echoes.

That 'law', and the actions of Judge Greer in ordering the execution by thirst of Terri Schiavo, are illegal. Any ten-year old with basic reading skills can deduce that simply by reading the supreme law of the State: its constitution.

The right to life is unalienable, still. Those who breach that have created a conditon of lawlessness which will reap the whirlwind in this country. In fact, it already is...

2,108 posted on 03/31/2005 2:59:10 PM PST by EternalVigilance ("I thirst.")
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To: EternalVigilance
They also had Article One, Section Two of the Florida constitution to 'work with

That does not supersede one's own right to refuse medical treatment. The Florida constitution does not mandate that life must be forced upon those who do not want it.

2,124 posted on 03/31/2005 3:07:49 PM PST by general_re ("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
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