Another Terri Schiavo Case may happen in Florida

Orlando Sentinel ^ | June 3, 2008 | Associated Press

[jy22077]

Please make www.terrisfight.org (info@terrisfight.org) aware of this. Please make pro-life outlets aware of this.

[yldstrk]

Check her out of there and get her out of the state pronto.

[EternalVigilance]

ping...

[waxer1]

Here we go again. I am sitting this one out in light of what happened on this forum last time.

I will only say this, I don’t know one person who would like to live this way. It is hard to accept that the person you loved is not there anymore just their body. My father died in November and for about two days I refused to consent to removing his breathing tube. I had to do this once before on my two year old son. It is hard, I loved my father so much that in the end I had to let him go.

anyway my two cents.

[oldenuff2no]

The state and local laws say clearly that if she can not communicate and has not made prior wishes known in varying legal documents then this decision is solely the responsibility of her husband.
I see this one taking off just like it did last time and in the end this simple fact prevailed.
Having had to face a similar situation in the past I know how difficult the husbands situation really is. I also know how hard it is to turn loose of a child.
Let this man alone. The courts have appointed someone to represent this lady. The doctors were right in the last media frenzy and the courts made the right decision.

[Gondring]

ping

[EternalVigilance]

The courts have appointed someone to represent this lady

Have our judicial oligarchs issued a death warrant for an innocent person yet?

...the courts made the right decision.

Since when does a court have a right to ignore the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and their state constitutions and kill uncharged, untried, unconvicted, innocent Americans, even by the most cruel and unusual of means?

People who think like you do have destroyed the cornerstone of American liberty.

[swmobuffalo]

“The doctors were right in the last media frenzy and the courts made the right decision.”

No They Weren’t.

[EternalVigilance]

Do you know the meaning of the word “unalienable?”

[Sherman Logan]

The comments below the article are quite interesting.

While I think the issue at the time was a lot less open and shut than was portrayed by the media, it seems clear that the whole Schiavo issue was a PR and public perception disaster for conservatism and (especially) the GOP.

Medical and family decisions were being made by politicians and legislatures, violating existing rules as needed to achieve a desired result.

Isn’t the attempt to change the rules in the middle of the game, and even after the game was over, exactly what we rightly criticized about Democrat behavior in the 2000 election?

[mavfin]

I agree. Letting my father go after Alzheimer’s had destroyed his mind so thoroughly he could no longer swallow was a blessing, not a curse. Legally, it’s up to the husband. Let the husband decide.

[moonman]

I live in Florida and had a feeding tube (PEG) inserted 3 weeks ago because I can no longer swallow anything liquid or solid due to cancer.

My life insuarnce is paid through August. Do I have to worry my wife can have a court order it's removal?

[DeLaine]

Well, the only thing is, your experience is not everyone’s experience. Ya know?

[taraytarah]

When the spouse has given up, custody should be given back to the parents or other willing relatives. His insistence her life be taken suggests there is money or a girlfriend, or both, involved.

And wouldn't a true vegetative state negate the need for powerful pain medications???

[jobim]

We are the same age, and I joined Free Republic just a month before you did. Are you battling cancer? I will include you in my daily Rosary prayers. God removes things from us (including life itself) so that we will need to go to Him for everything. I teach high school, and that thought is from the last thing we cover in the year, The Hound of Heaven (an poem by a Victorian English opium addict).

[CMS]

I agree. Letting my father go after Alzheimer’s had destroyed his mind so thoroughly he could no longer swallow was a blessing, not a curse. Legally, it’s up to the husband. Let the husband decide.

What if the husband stands to get $1million upon wifes death and he already has kids with another woman? I'd say there is a conflict in interest there.

[qam1]

While I think the issue at the time was a lot less open and shut than was portrayed by the media, it seems clear that the whole Schiavo issue was a PR and public perception disaster for conservatism and (especially) the GOP.

Greeeatt.

Obama and the other rats are probably salivating over this. If this becomes a big issue like last time he wins 40+ states and the rats will most certainly will end up with more than a filibuster proof majority.

[supercat]

The state and local laws say clearly that if she can not communicate and has not made prior wishes known in varying legal documents then this decision is solely the responsibility of her husband.

At least in Terri's case, that was not true. The only reason Mr. Schiavo was allowed to fatally dehydrate his wife is that he claimed that's what she'd said she'd want, Judge Greer apparently believed him, and no other judge was willing to question Judge Greer's judgment.

Many of us here do not believe that a man who has pledged to marry another woman as soon as his wife has died can be considered a credible witness to his wife's wishes. Further, Mr. Schiavo did everything possible to prevent an honest evaluation of Terri's condition by skilled but impartial observers. Why?

[mavfin]

What if the husband stands to get $1million upon wifes death and he already has kids with another woman? I'd say there is a conflict in interest there.

There's a court case on this one. It's being investigated. If you can find evidence of such a thing, then post it. Otherwise, don't bring me this crap. If the family wants her left on life-support, are they going to ruin themselves financially to do so? Or is the husband expected to do so on their wishes? Or is the taxpayer footing the bill for her continued care? Not every husband who agrees with the doctors to take his wife off life-support is an opportunist or a murderer. There comes a time when you have to let them go.

Now, I'm not saying that there isn't problems in this case, as I have no idea. As above, now that there's a court case, it will be investigated. This knee-jerk reaction anytime this happens that automatically vilifies the husband is wrong.

[oldenuff2no]

Autopsy Autopsy Autopsy... Yes the docs were right the autopsy sustained their views with provable fact.
I understand that people have their own feelings and opinions on this matter but you are not entitled to your own facts.