Posted on 04/01/2005 9:47:04 PM PST by Bayou City
That is correct.
Beware of Hillary Care....we must never allow any elected, or non-elected person to legislate laws that order the killing of those considered 'useless' by the state.
We must strive to strike out the word "vegetable" when applied to human beings.
We must work to turn the treacherous course of dehumanizing the handicapped, diabled and infirm.
We must enforce upon our elected representatives that we abhor and despise the outright malicious cruel inhumane killing of innocent living human beings.
We must hold our elected and non-elected representatives accountable for failure to act when a life such as Terri's is at stake.
Your post is so wonderfully beautiful. It stirs my soul.
Excellent post! Zogby Poll, curiously a day too late for Terri.
Perhaps I am cynical, but I wouldn't trust ANYTHING that comes out of the Pinellas County system. I would suspect too much back scratching there. Too much who's who, what's what, who "knows" who, and who's got what either in power, influence and/or wealth.
I will be very surprised if the coroner examines ANYTHING more than her brain. . and Mikey making noises like he "ordered" an autopsy is laughable. His ordering days over Terri are just about over.
Whose brain wouldn't be in an atrophied and stressed state after the numerous attempts of days at this time and in the past to starve and dehydrate them? We will be "assured" that what happened to Terri was "proper". I'm just about 99.9% on that.
bump / ping!
I think she may have already....surived 15 years...went through hell and back...galvanized those dedicated to the preservation of life...and a few more that I can't think of right now.
I don't know if she was or was not bulimic but as far as I read the only thing that seemed to lead to this diagnose was a low postassium level.
By the way if bad eating habits lead to heart attacks how come jockeys aren't dropping of heart attacks every day.
I think there was a lot more to her original hospitalization that is being covered up by Geer and his cronies.
I have a couple of questions and might as well ask them here as on another thread:
Who had the most influence in getting this story into the national spotlight, and more importantly, who had the most influence in getting that first law passed in Florida that spared her for a little longer and made the most noises in the final losing battle? What other activists were as vociferous as Free Republic? Jesse Jackson arrived several days late and several dollars short, but I do appreciate it that he finally did show up and speak out.
Even Free Republicans (here and out there) couldn't agree in this case.
I have one more question: What if both the parents and Michael had agreed it was appropriate to pull the feeding tube and went to court together to have it done? Would that have made it any less wrong? Would there have been a quieter outcome?
It's the young people that are a worry. All my granddaughter's friends think it was the right thing to do. She is an atheist (claims to be) Democrat (worked for them), but has stood firm that they shouldn't have done this to Terri. I would like to think that it wasn't because she saw how much it upset me. She has a good heart for people and animals.
I think you nailed it. Funny how the husband is drawn to catholics.
How many saints practically starved themselves to death for their cause? I know it's apples and oranges, but I think she deserves to become a saint anyway if their is a legal way to make her one. Here we go. First the law of the state and now the law of the church.
Terri's religious leader said that feeding tubes were not considered extraordinary. It carried some force definitely, but was not ex cathedra. Trying to tie up loose ends here.
Well, Karl Rove must have made the greatest miscalculation in polling history. Too bad an innocent one died needlessly so Karl could interpret events that way.
Yes, No, and yes, no one would have ever known but God. Supposedly what you mentioned happens thousands of times a year. The American people have a "morality gap" if Karl Rove et al are right.
I would say Free Republic, who had the full story well before the summer of 2003, when I first read about the case.
And more importantly, who had the most influence in getting that first law passed in Florida that spared her for a little longer
Then Speaker Johnnie Byrd, State Senator Daniel Webster, and Governor Bush, but it was not widely mentioned at the time that Bush had signed the 1999 law making dehydration and starvation an option in cases such as that of Terri
and made the most noises in the final losing battle?
You must mean Randall Terry, but he was really very subdued and did all he could. The deck was stacked against the Schindler from the start because the elites in both parties actually believe in judicial supremacy.
What other activists were as vociferous as Free Republic?
That Empire-Journal in NY that hardly anyone had before Terri's final battle
I was referring to the evident flood of emails and phone calls that Florida and Washington evidently could not ignore. Who was responsible for most of those?
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