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Father is wavering...

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The emotionally shaken father of a 16-year-old girl in an irreversible coma at Montefiore Medical Center is wavering in his opposition to ending what's left of her life.

"I'm 85% changed in my mind now, but I don't know the legality," said Leonard Peters, whose daughter Javona Peters is in a permanent vegetative state after what was supposed to be a routine operation on Oct. 17.

"I've got to think about it. I've got to talk to my lawyer," he said, a day after the Daily News reported on the teen's condition. "I mean, if nothing is working for Javona, I don't see the point now."

Until Wednesday, Peters opposed pulling the plug. "I don't give life and I cannot take a life," he told The News last week.

Javona's mother, Janet Joseph, has said she wants "to let Javona go in peace" by taking her off her feeding tube. The case is set for a Jan. 7 hearing in Bronx Supreme Court.

The case, first disclosed Wednesday in The News, has attracted national media attention to what could be another right-to-life battle, as in the Terri Schiavo case.........................................

Javona's dad wavers on pulling plug

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Some may not like this appointee of George W. Bush and his approach to the Judiciary as the true rulers of America. His approach lauds such characters as Greer and Whittemore. I don't.

............."Ann Coulter said that I was a 'hack,' and the worst judicial selection Bush made since he nominated Harriet Miers to the U.S. Supreme Court."

Jones said, "It is alarming to me that the public is being fed this kind of misinformation about the role of the judiciary. Judges should not rule on the basis of who their political benefactors were or are, but on the basis of the law." He added that the increased vitriolic attacks on judges for their rulings, such as when former Rep. Tom DeLay of Texas threatened to "hold federal judges accountable for their rulings" could have a chilling effect.

Jones added that many judges at various levels in the case of Terri Schiavo ruled on the basis of family law, rather than the political approach taken by the U.S. Senate which intervened to make it a federal case. "State courts usuallly decide family law cases. After Terri Schiavo died after her feeding tube was removed, Tom DeLay issued his warning that judges would be held accountable for their rulings." ................

Judge explains 'intelligent design' ruling

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Javona's mother, Janet Joseph, has said she wants "to let Javona go in peace" by taking her off her feeding tube.

I guess she has bought into the whole forced dehydration and starvation is "beautiful and euphoric" line of BS. Perhaps she should talk to come concentration camp or gulag survivors about their experiences with it, or just try not eating or drinking anything for a couple of days and see how she feels.

What pisses me off is that the culture of death has duped so many people into believing that starvation and dehydration is acceptable when a modicum of common sense screams otherwise.

Doesn't anyone get second opinions any more? It seems like Javona's mom was vulnerable to the doctor's will and agenda. Dad is likely tired and thinking too far into the future. It's not hard to fight for someone while there's still time but it sure as shooting is impossible to bring them back once they've suffered and died.

(the feloser is behind on his 2nd book. Things aren't working out as he planned...apparently the world didn't follow the pied piper of starvation and dehydration).