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Justice Department Will Investigate Terri Schiavo Abuse Complaint

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
September 6, 2005

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Bush administration will investigate a discrimination complaint regarding the treatment of Terri Schiavo filed shortly after the disabled woman was euthanized in March. The section of the Justice Department that handles disability rights has instructed the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate.

The investigation will center on whether or not any discrimination occurred against Terri under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 or the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, according to the Empire Journal.

Terri became severely disabled following an unknown incident that occurred in 1990. Her husband Michael claims he found her lying face down on the floor with her arms crossed.

Though some say Terri's collapse was the result of a potassium imbalance, members of Terri's family point to medical documents that make it appear there may have been foul play.

After Michael received final court permission to euthanize his wife, Terri died on March 31 following a painful two-week long starvation and dehydration death.

Several days before Terri died, a New York special education teacher filed an eight-page complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice on Terri's behalf and cited what he believed were violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The complaint requested a stay preventing Terri's death while authorities looked into the allegations.

According to the Empire Journal, the Department of Justice did not receive the complaint until April 5.

Danielle Miller, a teacher at Central Islip High School in Suffolk County filed the complaint and also sent it to various Florida elected officials and authorities with other states.

The Empire Journal reports that it named as defendants the various members of the local, state and federal courts that denied Terri's parents the right to stop the euthanasia.

The complaint cites numerous abuse allegations, including improper medical care and treatment denied by Michael, his prohibition of her obtaining a divorce, an confusion over whether Terri would have wanted to be killed because of her incapacitated state.

There is no word on how long it will take the HHS Department to look into the matter. The Justice Department directed HHS to investigate and provide a written report back to the federal agency.

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And this from the Times Herald of Port Huron, Michigan, http://www.thetimesherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050906/OPINION03/509060316/1014/OPINION

Article published Sep 6, 2005
Columnist incorrectly links Terri Schiavo, Susan Torres

In "Pro-lifers must consider fiscal effects of outlawing abortion," Robyn Limberg-Child's Sept. 1 column, she misleadingly compared Susan Torres' death to Terri Schiavo's. The two cases were legally and medically very different.

Legally, Terri Schiavo was being terminated against the will of all of her blood relatives based on hearsay testimony that was only produced after a financial motive was present. Terri was minimally conscious and not dying.

Susan Torres had a brain tumor that was killing her, and she was kept alive through artificial respirators and other medical treatments that could not go on for ever.

In other words, Susan Torres' death was imminent and the medical procedures only served to extend her dying for days or weeks. Terri Schiavo only needed food and water and would have lived at home under her own family's care for decades.

There's a big difference between Terri Schiavo and Susan Torres. There is as much difference between letting a woman starve and die of thirst for 14 days and Susan Torres' death as there is between tearing the limbs of a post viability fetus to suction it out and a miscarriage.

Money simply plays no part in determining what is morally right or wrong - for you - or any other person.

GUALBERTO GARCIA JONES

Washington, D.C., Sept. 1