Posted on 03/31/2005 11:43:58 AM PST by kingattax
Just announced on FoxNews that the Schindler family will hold a press conference at 4:30 PM EST.
No, she died of thirst.
THEIR selfishness? Yeah, like anyone would trust a guy who kept their daughter alive but only until he had won a malpractice suit.
For twenty-five years or more, people have been killing their relatives with the blessing of society. We have got used to it. But this is a cruel way of killing someone, cruel certainly to those who loved her.
In most cases, though, there was at least a pretext that the people in question were already dying. What is exposed here is that the dealers of death don't care about such details.
Has it occured to you that if it took her two weeks to die that her bodily integrity was pretty strong? You lie down in bed afor two weeks without water and see if you survive..
Was IT a Jesuit?
It was a law that gave a judge too much discretion.
I say again, get over yourself and get over losing.
Yeah, how about that ...
I was told that a hospice was for the dying. Terri was no more dying that Christopher Reeve was. The difference was that Reeve was able to talk.
Gave a judge the power that once belonged to a jury. Wouldf you rather be judged by a jury of your peers or by a single judge?
Rather this and rather that ... 'the law' was followed. Don't like it? Change the law.
Yes. Much of the public support for Michael is simply due to ignorance. But much of it's probably callousness or worse.
This country is more corrupt than most conservatives like to think. And it's not only the liberals.
I found the transcript information at Meet the Press and it's included below. The guy's name is Robert F. Drinan, S.J., and a quick web search on him does indicate he is Jesuit.
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The following excerpt is credited as being from "NBC NEWS' MEET THE PRESS." 3/27/2005:
MR. RUSSERT: Father Drinan, do you think it was appropriate for Congress to be involved in this matter?
REV. ROBERT DRINAN: No, I don't. I think it's rather well settled at the state level, and it's rather well settled also in Catholic theology. I would recommend that the viewers look at the Web site of the Catholic Hospital Association. For years, they have been developing a coherent philosophy on this matter and the Holy See in the last year seem to have been a bit more conservative, which is understandable. It's a terrible, terrible, agonizing thing. But I think that all the judges that heard it, 20, 25 judges, we have the most certainty that we can have in this difficult situation.
MR. RUSSERT: I want to read something that you said to The Washington Post in 2003: "Catholics have no right to impose their views on others. Even if they say homosexual conduct is unfitting for a Catholic, they have no right to impose that on the nation."
If you believe that homosexuality is immoral or that abortion is the taking of a life, or that you believe very strongly that Terri Schiavo should remain on a tube, are you not honor-bound as a political figure to try to, in effect, bring about that result, if it's a firmly held motional belief?
REV. DRINAN: Yes and no. Go back to Vatican II. Three thousand bishops agonized over this, and at the end of the day, they said that the church should never seek to impose its views. They should not have any shadow of coercion, renouncing 20 centuries of the church dominating the scene. So I think that it's a different world, and we respect everybody else and there's lots of things that are immoral that should not be illegal.
I blame all of them, but I also blame myself, you, and everyone else. Why? Because we could have stopped the whole ordeal but we didn't. I could have driven to Florida and organized a rescue operation. I didn't. Should I have? What would the unintended consequenses of my actions been? I wrestle with these questions because it is against my nature to let the kind of terrible act that happened take place. I have the knowledge and the skills to intervene and stop this kind of thing but by doing so, there would have been the high risk of someone getting seriously hurt or killed in the process. Sadly, Terri was the victim of the inaction of all of us. So, yes, I suppose I am a whack job for giving a flying @#$^.
Now, we have to face the consequenses of our inaction. It seems that it was ordained that someone was to die in the Terri Shaivo situation. This was brought on by Greer and MS for reasons that completely escape me. This all could have been avoided if MS simply let tests be done to see if she could be rehabilitated or fed orally. He didn't, he pushed us into a situation where the very nature of our Republic is in question. How the chips will fall now is something only God knows. All I can do is pray that he forgives us all for our lack of action to save Terri.
As a side note, I don't think violence is the answer to problems in the world for the most part. I wouldn't condone violence against the police officers guarding against a rescue of Terri but I couldn't condemn it either. Where do we draw the line at tolorating the heavy handed actions of activist judges and other public officials? People are dying because of them. When do we say enough is enough? This is why Congress MUST act to punish Greer for ignoring the Congressional Subpeona. If they don't, they have no right to demand any enforcement of any law on the books.
Mike
Maybe, maybe not. She's immoral, that's for sure. But Michael has a habit of intimating the women he wants. He did that to Terri, there's a sworn testimony of another woman he dated and now, I suspect that this woman doesn't dare do anything but what he gives her permission to do. But yes, she asked for it.
First of all, Michael is not Catholic so I don't think he cares what the Church thinks. Second, Teddy Kennedy managed to have his second marriage blessed by the Church. If Teddy can do it, then anybody can.
I remember reading about a case nearly thirty years ago where the Mass. supreme court ruled that the family and doctors were too emotional to make life and death decisions. Theses decisions should be up to the courts.
This stuff has been going on for a very long time.
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