Posted on 04/01/2005 8:05:46 PM PST by FairOpinion
The finding was reviewed, but under the law, near impossible to reverse. That's the rub.
Once the Schindlers said they would chop off all her limbs and rip out her heart to keep her body breathing even if they knew she would not wish for that, what would you have done if you were Michael.
It took Bobby Sands 66 days to die that way.
Luis, since when have you become the definer of what is allowed or disallowed for someone to be pro-life? [I recall our debate regarding the death penalty and my anti-abortion beliefs.] And I thought you were a Catholic ... and you know what The Holy Father says about food and water for disabled people. I am kind of surprised to hear you so worshipful of Ken Starr though ... and I happened to have listened to him when he said he had not dug into this case and used qualifiers like 'it appears' and 'it is likely that' when asked to pronounce validity upon the court process in Florida.
I would like to see that statement in a cout transcript and hear what kind of question was asked..
BS
It is comforting for all of us though to know how well we are all doing with this experimental technique of nutrition and hydration by mouth. Most people I know have survived this experimentation since birth. /sarcasm
who is Bobby sands?
This is very important to you, isn't it?
Look at the definition of legal death, brain death, cardiac death, etc. It varies by state.
In Texas, brain death can be used for those on life support - a ventilator and/or a pacemaker. In that case, there is no function in the brain stem. The gold standard, in disputed cases, is a blood flow study of the brain stem, which should show no blood flow at all. I wouldn't be surprised if a PET scan becomes the standard in the future. In obvious cases, as in severe trauma to the head or after a stroke and when there is no drug being used that could depress the Central Nervous System, EEG's that show no brain wave activity in the brain stem could be acceptable.
In cases where a person is found pulseless and without respiration by paramedics, they are usually required to find other signs, such as a documented time since collapse, pooling of blood, severe chest trauma, etc., although that may vary by local criteria.
Of five doctors who examined Terri for the courts, three said she was pvs and two said she wasn't. With the inclusion of the DCF doctor, that makes it a tie, 3 to 3.
50 doctors sent statements to the courts which said Terri could be rehabilitated.
Nurses who cared for Terri, Terri's family, friends and priests all said Terri was responsive.
Still can't answer the question?
Ah, so you also don't believe abortion is murder.
The links are here.
Should be easy for you to find.
Google is your friend.
That was not mean spirited. I was listing events that could cause any of us to find ourselves dependent on others for our care.
Your reaction on the other hand, underlines your inability to identify with others in an empathetic way. Extrapolate. This is not all about you.
Law and government guns affect more than one person at a time.
The Holy Father no more runs Florida Courts than the Florida Judiciary runs the Vatican.
And it became "not murder" once the Federal government became involved on something traditionally (and Constitutionally) left to the States.
But why would we actually learn from that?
This was the whole problem with the case. It's like Greer heard evidence 3 to 2 that the world was flat. He threw out testimony that he thought was biased or wrong and then ruled that the world was flat.
Thereafter, no matter how much evidence was presented that the world was round, it just didn't matter, as Greer had already declared it to be legal fact that the world was flat.
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