Posted on 02/01/2008 2:51:57 PM PST by Pyro7480
A Delaware woman has become the next Terri Schiavo as her parents engage in a massive legal and philosophical debate about whether to subject her to euthanasia. Richardson is a 23-year-old woman who overdosed on heroin in August 2006 while she was three months pregnant with a baby girl.
Doctors kept Lauren on life support until she delivered her baby in February 2007. Shortly thereafter, her parents began a fight that is reminiscent of the battle over Terri's life and death.
As in the Terri Schiavo case, physicians have been quick to label Lauren as having a persistent vegetative state -- something Terri's family called dehumanizing and medically inaccurate as patients have recovered from it.
Edith Towers, Lauren's mother, wants to remove her feeding tube and starve and dehydrate her to death in the same manner that Michael Schiavo subjected Terri.
Towers claims Lauren would never have wanted to live as a permanently disabled person, but Lauren, as with Terri, did not have a living will or other advance directive spelling out her treatment wishes. She claims Lauren told her during Terri's battle that she would not want to live like her.
On the other side is Randy Richardson, Lauren's father is fighting to save her life and wants to be appointed as her guardian to ensure she receives appropriate medical care and treatment.
"She's committed no crime and doesn't deserve to have this death imposed on her," Richardson told the News Journal newspaper on Wednesday. "We just want to give her a chance."
Lauren no longer uses a ventilator or other breathing apparatus and is not on artificial life support -- something Randy contends is showing progress.
Towers is winning the legal battle in court as she was awarded guardianship of Lauren, but Randy Richardson has filed an appeal.
The News Journal indicates Delaware Court of Chancery Master Sam Glasscock III has put any action taking Lauren's life on hold while the court reviews the guardianship ruling -- a process that could take as much as three months to complete.
Regardless of the decision, an appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court is expected.
Randy Richardson also has other concerns about his daughter and says that Towers, his ex-wife, has not allowed Lauren's baby to see her.
Richardson and the Delaware Pro-Life Coalition released a video on Wednesday that shows Lauren at a nursing home reacting to family members and a dog.
The pro-life group also organized a prayer vigil near the Arbors Rehab Center in New Castle.
Thread by Antoninus on the Obama Nation stand on killing little kids not yet even born. Thanks, wagglebee, for the ping.
Chicago, IL -- Senator Barack Obama today released the following statement on the 35th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision.
"Thirty-five years after the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, it's never been more important to protect a woman's right to choose. Last year, the Supreme Court decided by a vote of 5-4 to uphold the Federal Abortion Ban, and in doing so undermined an important principle of Roe v. Wade: that we must always protect women's health. With one more vacancy on the Supreme Court, we could be looking at a majority hostile to a women's fundamental right to choose for the first time since Roe v. Wade. The next president may be asked to nominate that Supreme Court justice. That is what is at stake in this election.............
Barack Obama -- Messiah for the Culture of Death
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Thread by wagglebee.
Denver, CO (LifeNews.com) -- Pro-life advocates met with Denver officials on Wednesday to secure the permits necessary to protest abortion at this summer's Democratic convention. The Christian Defense Coalition and a pro-life youth group called Survivors said they want permits soon so they can begin planning or they will consider filing a lawsuit against officials.
The groups are concerned that Denver authorities have removed 14 downtown city parks from the list of public venues in which groups may peacefully assemble.........
Pro-Life Groups Want Permits to Protest at Democratic Convention
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A national organization for pro-life OBGYNS is challenging the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) over a new policy saying all doctors, including those who are pro-life, should refer women to abortion centers. The American Association of ProLife Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) objects to the guidelines..................
Pro-Life Doctors Group Challenges OBGYN Org on Abortion Conscience Rights
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Greer is still wrecking lives and enjoying every minute of it.
Did you ck out the St. Pete Times today? I believe there should be a thread. "BUDGET CRUNCH COULD CLOSE COURTS" (they weren't any good anyway. sleaze merchants) CLOSE 'EM and I'll watch them cry crocodile tears. The article says they are dying. So, the judicial system will be on life support in time for Easter. It seems FLORIDA'S JUDICIAL SYSTEM IS GUILTY OF MISMANAGEMENT. Pinellas County or the Kingdom of Greer will be LAYING OFF 250 employees. Other counties face major layoffs too! The entire state judicial system is over budget. Judges will go unscathed but everyone else is subject to layoff. We KNEW Florida's judicial system was broken and corrupt. Now there's proof positive. Even the cristi-critter is swatting at the judiciary. I guess he doesn't need them now! I JUST LUV JUST DESSERTS!
It must be God's will. (Terri haters said her murder was God's will, remember, 8mmmauser?)
With all those people getting laid off and let go, maybe what really happened to Terri is going to come out. If they're out of work, somebody's gonna want to write the next Terri book. Disgruntled employees often run to the arms of a publisher or the media to exact payback for the loss of their employment. This is a BREAK IN TERRI'S CASE. We just need to be patient and eventually SOMEBODY'S GOING TO JAIL. There's no statute of limitations on murder.
If anyone wants to start a separate thread, feel free. It really exact justice when the very people who got paid for their silence re: Terri lose their jobs.
I look forward to the truth coming out. They cannot keep all 250 laid off employees in Pinellas-Pasco's mouths shut. And, there's the Appeals Courts too. The layoffs will be statewide.
http://www.sptimes.com/2008/02/21/State/Cost_cutting_may_clos.shtml
www.judgegeorgegreer.com
www.michaelschiavo.org
www.judgegeorgegreer.com, a zoning commissioner WHO BECAME A JUDGE without running for election. They had an opening and he was unopposed. That was unfortunate because in addition to being an idiot, he’s very e-v-i-l.
The paranoia he experiences will follow him even upon retirement. He was the first judge to kill an American citizen.
Even in criminal cases, it is the JURY who sentences the accused.
Terri Schindler Schiavo was the FIRST AMERICAN CITIZEN, innocent person/criminal to be ORDERED TO BE EXECUTED BY A JUDGE, bar none.
This piece of American history is lost on all the koolaid drinkers.
There is no statute of limitations on MURDER.
Peaceful obscurity? Old Blind Sheik Greer will go on speaking tours at $50K a pop and get his pension of $165,000 upon retirement. He’s too much of an egomanic to go into peaceful obscurity. Most killers are.
Signing off bttt. The judicial system in Fla is in major layoff mode. Maybe that will slow down unscrupulous guardians and attorneys rushing to ex parte to take advantage of innocents or they’ll just rob wards without the Court’s authorization.
PTL! and pass the popcorn. This could get real
interesting!
Please Lord, let it be so.
Justice for Terri’s tormentors!
Amen and Amen
Judge Greer, their very own replacement symbol for Blind Justice, may it be as myopic and short as his own visions for the future.
Well, Felos or whatever...
Thanks, Les.
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While recently reading a Delaware On Line article
about Lauren Richardson's fight to live, a George Felos quote jumped
off the page and made the hair on the back of my neck stand up!
Inserting himself into another disabled woman's family turf battle should
raise the hackles of any who remember his work with Michael Schiavo to
ensure Terri's untimely demise.
Felos, author of "Litigation as Spiritual Practice" has a history with disabled women
who can't speak for themselves. As a matter of fact, George Felos has a habit
of speaking for them.
The Delaware On Line, February 3, 08, article explained, "Felos said he was pleased that this is apparently exactly what happened with Lauren Richardson and her mother."
'This is just an example of why living wills (also called Advance Heath Care Directives) ... is not just an elderly issue. It is for everyone. We just don't know when our time will come,' he said. 'If there is any grace that came out of the Schiavo case, it is that lives were affected in a positive way,' he said."
Mr. Felos musings about Estelle Browning's so-called "right to die" struggle are chronicled in his chilling book available
from Blue Dolphin Press.
"Such a deep, dark, silent blue. I stared as far into her eyes as I could, hoping to sense some glimmer of understanding, some hint of awareness. The deeper I dove, the darker became the blue, until the blue became the black of some bottomless lake. "Mrs. Browning, do you want to die ... do you want to die?" I nearly shouted as I continued to peer into her pools of strikingly beautiful but incognizant blue. It felt so eerie. Her eyes were wide open and crystal clear, but instead of the warmth of lucidity, they burned with the ice of expressionlessness."
This encounter with Mrs. Browning led Mr. Felos, Esq. to his current crusader role in "freeing the disabled" in Florida
and chillingly beyond.
CREEPY SCHIAVO LAWYER FELOS ON LAUREN RICHARDSON
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From Thaddeus Mason Pope, Assistant Professor of Law, Memphis...
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The first appellate brief should be filed today in the Lauren Richardson case. This, of course, assumes that my math is right. It is probable that I have overlooked some special Delaware ways to count holidays or weekends.
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For anyone curious about Medical Futility like we saw with plenty of our own detractors in the Texas Futile Care Law, this blog will be of interest. It is the one linked just above, by Mr. Pope.
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The Gardner-Webb Theater Department's newest original work, "Gloria Dei," opens tonight. GWU Director of Theater Scot Lahaie wrote the script after following the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case, which climaxed with her death in March 2005.
Schiavo suffered irreparable brain damage from oxygen deprivation after collapsing from heart failure in 1990. In 1998, her husband and parents began a protracted legal battle about removing her from life support.
In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that her husband, Michael, had the right to withdraw it.
"They said she didn't feel a thing, but she moaned and groaned the entire time." Lahaie said. "She just needed food and water. She wasn't on a life monitor or anything."................
Theater department premieres 'Gloria Dei' tonight
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Early in Senator John McCain’s first run for the White House eight years ago, waves of anxiety swept through his small circle of advisers.
A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, in his offices and aboard a client’s corporate jet. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself — instructing staff members to block the woman’s access, privately warning her away and repeatedly confronting him, several people involved in the campaign said on the condition of anonymity..........
For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk [McCain had an affair?]
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