Posted on 03/19/2005 11:30:38 AM PST by Ravi
Just heard on Fox that U.S. Senate will convene today in emergency session regarding Terri Schiavo.
Or why can't there be something about him abandoning his wife to live with someone else?
I think Greer is just doing unthinking analysis of the situation. In other cases the husband would have the final say so ends the analysis. He does not see the need to consider the other aspects which the law provides to show a husband decision is colored by outside circumstances.
The analysis of why this is an exceptional circumstance must be done throught the standard analysis of an incapacitated married wife/husband. The question and what is most alarming about this case is that it points out the limited legal ability of judges. Book smarts mean nothing, law in a vacume without facts. Legal knowledge must work at applied to the facts of the real world.
There is no case. That will not happen.
I think Feinstein has been busy with her Horse Slaughter Bill. (She wants to make sure that the bodies of dead American horses aren't sold overseas to people who eat horseflesh)
As Americans, most of us were shocked to learn that this odious, ugly and gut-wrenching practice even exists. Why? The reason is simple. Horse slaughter, or the slaughter of our pleasure, nonfood animals, is not and never will be part of our culture.So, on the one hand, "horse slaughter should not be part of our culture," but, on the other hand, starving helpless humans is part of the future that the liberals beholden to the ACLU have in mind for us.
It's really a kind of bigamy.
Right now, the law presumes do all in the absence of documentation to the contrary. I think attorneys like felos want to change the presumption to death.
You hit the nail on the head. The "legal presumption" in incapacity cases is what's at stake here, and it's a HUGE issue that goes way beyond Terri. Florida law says that the judge must presume against withholding feeding, unless there is clear and convincing evidence that that's what the patient wants. AS a Florida Internation U. Law Professor wrote in the Miami Heral last week, obviously there isn't "clear and convincing" evidence that Terri would want to have nutition and water withheld. All they have are ambiguous statements, offered into evidence as hearsay, annd there are statements that go both ways. So in the absense of clear evidence pointing one way, you don't withhold the nutrition. The law prof. wrote that it was "shocking" that greer had order nutrition withheld, on such flimsy evidence. Essentially, as you say, he's turned the presumptions on their head - - he's presuming for death, not for life. If this is a change that society is going to make, the legislative branch must do so - - NOT the judiciary. Felos seems to want to get it done through the courts.
That sums it up nicely!
Naahhh. Ovens and gas chambers are more effective.
Ted Kennedy has just claimed he will fight this Senate attempt with all he's got.
Possible in another state, but not Florida.
OK, whoever has the key that has locked Traviskicks on this thread....toss um the key so he/she can leave.
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I'm out. That was my 2 cents. :)
Because her "husband" refused to allow one to be done.
I was downstairs and heard this on FOX News. Ran around the house screaming and shouting and praising the Lord God Almighty.
Then these absolute morons started talking about how it's unconstitutional and how Terri's fate should be in the hands of her husband. I called FOX News to complaint 1-212-301-3000 but they just make me sick!! Earlier in the day, the guy sitting in for Tony Snow said the feeding tube is in Terri's ARM FOR GOD'S SAKE. HOW COULD ANYONE BE THAT DUMB IGNORANT AND MISINFORMED. Those people don't know squat about Terri's situation and they act like they do. It's absolutely DISGUSTING!!!
I also called the White House and left a message there.
I'm on a hunger strike in solidarity with Terri.
Not giving up hope yet.
If anyone could benefit from a little starvation . . .
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....... and I predict dark tonight.
;-)
What does your rant have to do with what is being done to Terri???
I think it's an issue of dehydration, more then one of food.
They are denying her water as well, aren't they?
Regards
Chapaquiddick part deux.
Prayer to St. Joseph for Terri Schaivo
Good St. Joseph,
Guardian of our Lady and the child Jesus,
Patron of women, children, and husbands,
Patron of the whole church,
you who are there for us calmly,
in times of trouble,
patron saint of a holy death,
on today your feast day,
we ask you to especially watch down on our most vunderable sister,
Terri Schaivo,
intercede for her with your son Jesus,
comfort her as the pangs of hunger and thirst grow stronger,
pray for strength for those who are working so hard to save her,
pray for healing and softening in those hearts trying to kill her,
pray that all who watch her vigil
will learn the realities of the evilness of human-caused suffering,
and how life is a gift from God in heaven.
St. Joseph,
quietly you worked to protect and raise Jesus as a child,
quietly, you work tirelessly in heaven
as you watch over your son's church,
never was it known that any who turned to you were left unaided.
Pray for us, good St. Joseph,
now, and at the hour of our death, Amen
His message: "You may not like what they do but it clears the way for the House to do what we need to do."
Please listen to Congressman King.
Perhaps the order of Congress needs to go to the actual, hands on killer. It might come down to which consequences that pit of an institution fears the most...those of a pathetic little god wannabe in a black robe, or those of the entire US Congress (with a few predictable exceptions), fully supported by the president.
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