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To: Ohioan

"It is no accident that the Founding Fathers left the protection of health, safety and morality to the States. It is one of the most important safeguards we have against run away authoritarianism." So true, yet your perspective on the Terri Schiavo case--as stated in your essay at your website--starts with an erroneous assumption, that Terri was brain dead for the past decade plus. If you CHOOSE to accept as inerrant the rubber stampery of the judiciary, without at least digging deeper to see if she actually was 'gone' (as you have chosen to believe), then don't be put off when folks dismiss your further opines reagrding the efficacy of a probate judge ordering that she be executed for what is clearly a judgement that she was gone already. Frankly, willy-nilly sounds about right for the repeated unjust rulings in Florida over Terri's assumed wishes. [HINT: tube feeding wasn't even considered an extraordinary life support measure when Terri (at 20 years old!) is alleged to have made her assertion regarding 'being kept alive if severely disabled'; Judge Greer disallowed sworn testimony based on his own flawed memory of Karen Quinlan's 'aliveness'.]


505 posted on 05/03/2005 12:08:24 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: MHGinTN
My purpose, here, is not to argue the merits of the decision of a case, where all appeals have been exhausted.

My basic point, is to uphold the local County Probate Court as the proper venue for such a case. Obviously, someone had to make some decisions here, and that was the proper forum.

My secondary point--which is indeed my motivating point--is that the fanatic attacks on the Florida Court are undermining Conservative credibility in general, and in particular Conservative credibility in the fight to limit abortion, which I fully support.

516 posted on 05/03/2005 12:28:21 PM PDT by Ohioan
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