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I never had a family member that was withheld food and water; perhaps I was quoting someone else, & that's where the confusion was.

However, my father was overmedicated, not intentionally, but would not eat because he was "snowed under," with the drugs.

My mother told them to cut his meds, and his appetite came back, and my father is doing well, two years later.

Doctors often overprescribe through ignorance and incompetence, as well as intentionally, so family members have to keep an eye on their loved ones.

I was reading that one year 126,000 people died because of LEGAL drugs (and that's the ones they know about).

You are correct about states' rights. States' rights is going overboard, to say the least, when it allows killing. States' rights should not allow killing innocent people - how evil!!

The government's first duty is to protect it's citizens, not kill them.

[amdgmary]

Justice Coalition hears from Schiavo

Ted McGowan, featured speaker Bobby Schindler and Matt Schellenberg

Terri Schiavo’s brother thanked The Justice Coalition and founder Ted Hires on Thursday for offering support during his sister’s right-to-life struggle that turned into a national political controversy.

Speaking at the Coalition’s “Together We Can Breakfast” at the San Jose Country Club, Bobby Schindler said Hires had helped tell the family’s side of its legal struggle to keep Terri alive by publishing numerous stories in The Victim’s Advocate, the Coalition’s paper.

“Those stories helped get the truth out there when people couldn’t get the facts from the Associated Press,” said Schindler.

The Coalition also helped rally political support among area legislators to help pass “Terri’s Law,” a bill passed during the October 2004 special legislative session that temporarily kept Schiavo alive until a court order removed her feeding tube, said Schindler.

The breakfast was a fundraiser for The Justice Coalition, but Hires wasn’t the only one there trying to raise money.

Florida gubernatorial candidate Tom Gallagher, currently the state’s chief financial officer, sat at Hires’ table. He said fundraising was his early preoccupation as he prepares to try to replace Gov. Jeb Bush, who has reached his two-term limit for the office.

“We’re moving rapidly to shore up financing and settle on the issues that I plan to emphasize,” said Gallagher. “I think I’ll do well in Duval County, I’ve always received fantastic support here.”

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