[hocndoc]

The Governor grants a reprieve.

There is no ethical reason to remove this woman's feeding tube.

There are times not to place a tube, which is a medical intervention. But, Mrs. Schiavo, at least until she got sick in the last week or so, has a tube in place. In this case, it is not extraordinary intervention to use the tube to feed her. It would be extraordinary and unnecessary intervention to remove it and simply cruel to stop feeding her.

[ovrtaxt]

About the feeding tube:

Heres' the kicker. Several doctors and therapists have suggested that she may be able to swallow normally. The court has prohibited them from trying this. They can't even try. They also can't attempt any occupational or physical therapy. It's just stupid and sick what this lawyer has done to her.

[Conservababe]

If one has ever worked in a nursing home, one would know that a feeding tube sometimes is inserted for the convience of the staff, not the patient, who may take a long time to feed.

Do judges know this? I think not, especially this stupid judge on his ruling to have it removed.

[Libertina]

Hope I don't get severely burned in the ensuing flame war, but WHY should a family keep artificially alive (long-term) someone who is a vegetable? Or is that not the case here?

[Robert Drobot]

"The Governor grants a reprieve."

Asking dishonorable Judge Greer to reconsider his cruel and unusual 56 to 84 day death sentence ( it usually takes 8 to 12 weeks for a human being to die of starvation, however infection usually hastens death ) is no reprieve.

The president's brother has not intervened.