http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43624
BINGO. I have a feeling this is what I was looking for.... as I searched for words in my above post about how everything just seems so wrong, and I feel inconsolable.
from your link to: http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43624 - - -
Judge Stanley F. Birch Jr. of the Atlanta-based U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals took 15 hours to hand down his denial – Terri's last. After he lambasted the legislative and executive branches of government for what he interpreted as stepping on the judiciary, he said "... the time has come for dispassionate discharge of duty."
Translated: Terri had to die.
She did.
While each court and judges might be preening that they followed the law, the truth is they killed Terri Schiavo by omission. Their not reviewing the case sealed her death warrant.
Our judicial system, which is supposed to administer justice, instead ordered – no, demanded – cold-blooded murder in the case of a handicapped woman who could not speak for herself.
It's not the first time people have been allowed to die by stopping food and water. It's the dirty secret of medicine that it goes on all the time, but usually it's hidden – people are lied to and families suffer in silent grief.
However, this is the first time it's been done in the glare of media coverage, however biased, misleading and inflammatory it was and is.
It's also the first time, such a death has been ordered by the courts, ignored by elected officials who claim they could do nothing and, in fact, used police to enforce the killing. How do they live with themselves?
I guess they were just following orders.
It's not a proud moment for this country. It's an indelible stain on our honor and freedom. Whatever happened to justice tempered with mercy?