(by phildragoo)
Terri Schiavo would be alive today if the Founding Fathers had only thought to add to the Constitution "Food and Water" to the basic inalienable rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. There would be no need of an official Terri's Day. The Founding Fathers did not consider hydration and nutrition because it appeared no civilized nation at the time had deprived their citizens, not even their convicted criminals of that basic right, so therefore the thinking had to be, why include the obvious? Perhaps as Thomas Jefferson was at his desk laboring over crafting the correct wording for historic passages which would become the framework for our Constitution... food and water...just slipped his mind.
Constitutional amendment would have protected Terri Schiavo from starvation death
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This was lifted from the St. Pete Times and printed in the Plain Dealer.
The right-to-die case of Terri Schiavo was defined as much by its bitterness as by its length, and a new book by husband Michael Schiavo is not intended to calm the harsh feelings.
In his book, "Terri: The Truth," Michael Schiavo says his wife's illness stemmed from an eating disorder that he believes her father helped cause by tormenting her for years about her excess weight.
Schiavo's book no olive branch
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The REAL ISSUE is that Florida has law stating that withholding nutrition and hydration from a disabled person is a felony. They added another law that says nutrition and hydration is medical treatment.
The second law is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Terri was murdered because of the unconstitutional law but gee, the judges and leaders overlooked the law about the FELONY to withhold nutrition and hydration.
TERRI'S MURDER WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Trying to save her was not. The cowards who stopped saving her halfway there know who they are.
(by phildragoo)