Janet Rivera story amplified by Professor Pope. Thanks, Leslie.
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Fresno County Public Guardian's Office had been the authorized health care decision maker for Janet Rivera, ever since it was determined that Rivera's husband was doing a poor job of handling her medical care.
Rivera's family initially agreed with the guardian's decision to stop her ventilator and ANH on the recommendation of health care providers. But after Janet began to breathe on her own and was clearly going to die solely because of the lack of ANH, the family no longer supported the guardian's decision. The family challenged the decision in court last week. The hearing on the merits was scheduled for today.
But the Fresno County, California court never reached the merits of the case. It never addressed whether the guardian acted appropriately under the Probate Code. It never addressed whether stopping ANH ws in Rivera's best interests. Instead, The county guardian apparently voluntarily agreed to step aside (at least temporarily) in favor of Suzanne Emrich, Rivera's cousin who lives in Santa Cruz County.
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Posted by Thaddeus Mason Pope at 2:16 PM 
Janet Rivera - Replacing the Guardian
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We haven't heard from the MoveOn crowd lately claiming Terri's Legacy was fading. But as we see once more, her Legacy shines brightly and hurts the eyes of the left. So they continue their propaganda bordering on the preposterous, that decent Americans wanted innocent Terri dead and abhorred any effort to save her life. Now it is #6 in the top ten list of reasons to hate Bush.
Meanwhile Terri's Legacy shines on as more and more cases, once perhaps concealable are now in the open for the truth to be revealed.
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In what will no doubt go down in history as one of the craziest things our federal government has ever done, the U.S. House and Senate both passed an emergency law to save the life of a woman who had been near brain-dead for more than a decade. The case of Terri Schiavo, who collapsed in her home and who later lost oxygen to her brain after her doctors misdiagnosed the cause of her collapse, was undoubtedly tragic for everyone involved; it was also undoubtedly none of the federal government’s business.
After numerous state courts had sided with then-husband and guardian Michael Schiavo and ruled that Terri’s condition was irreversible and that her feeding tube could be removed to end her life, the Christian right launched into an epic freakout the likes of which America has not seen since 17th-century Salem. After much Tasmanian devil-style screeching and hollering from the GOP base, the Republican Congress passed a bill transferring jurisdiction of the Schiavo case to federal court. Bush, who seemingly never misses an opportunity to take a naked ride on the crazy train, interrupted one of his frequent Texas vacations to sign the damn thing into law.
Ah, if only he’d been this swift and alert when Hurricane Katrina hit (see moment No. 4).
While there were several moments of sheer, unbridled lunacy throughout (Pat Buchanan calls Michael Schiavo and his supporters Nazis! Tom DeLay issues threats against judges who don’t rule how he wants them to! Peggy Noonan calls Michael Schiavo supporters part of a “culture of death!"), the craziest by far was then-Sen. Bill Frist’s declaration that Terri had been misdiagnosed after he spent an hour watching a video of her in his office.
6 The Terri Schiavo Affair
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(July 29, 2008)