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To: UnChained

What I'm suggesting is that the legislature should have legislated before this happened. It's not as though no one ever thought this might happen. In fact, it's been years since Schiavo died, and the Florida legislature still has not clarified the law. I suspect that other states are in the same boat. It's just a matter of time before we have another case like that one, and the legislature will be pretending that they were caught by surprise, and never imagined that a judge might come to such a distorted view of the law.


470 posted on 11/15/2006 3:20:34 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant
What I'm suggesting is that the legislature should have legislated before this happened.

But they did. Greer could not of pulled her feeding tube without the help of the 1999 Florida law that decreed that a feeding tube is life support - just like a respirator. Of course, the compassionate Greer took it just a tiny bit further and included any oral nourishment as well. That is why you have seen all types of people being arrested for trying to give her a drink of water.

471 posted on 11/15/2006 4:11:24 PM PST by bjs1779
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