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[Ravi]

Just heard on Fox that U.S. Senate will convene today in emergency session regarding Terri Schiavo.

[AmericaUnited]

In fact, and I may be wrong because I just saw it here in a posted comment, not from another source, but I did read here that he was offered a lot of money ($10 million) to transfer the care of Terri to her parents.

That offer was probably a blatant Felos lie but even if it was true, SCUMBAG could not take it and risk Terri getting rehabilitated and tesifying against him.

[leprechaun9]

Last month I lost a good friend to "Second Polio." He was wheel chair bound for the last five years. We were class mates in elementary and high school (a long time ago - 1940s).

I know that although he was unable to feed himself for the last two years or go to the bathroom unattended, his loving wife and family were always there and grateful for the time they spent with him, including attending his youngest sons wedding on the beach in Cape May, NJ.

I could not imagine his wife or anyone who knew him even considering to STOP FEEDING HIM!

[Jrabbit]

LOL

I must say, you are creative! To make this into a love story is priceless!

Read the timeline of events in this case. Then tell me how much poor Michael has grieved.

Again, thanks for the chuckle

[OneTimeLurker]

"If you have a written directive, it doesn't apply to you."

And if you don't and your family want's to pull the plug after oh I don't know, say 20 years. Then it's the government's decision? No thanks.

[lupie]

Thanks for the info. The whole life support thing is such a gray area.

[veronica]

Excuse me, but how dare you imply that Hildy is less than sensitive when it comes to knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust and all that it means.

Talk about not tolerating another point of view.

[amystitz]

"I've seen freepers espouse that Michael is after the insurance money. And yet according to court papers, Michael formally offered to divest himself entirely of his financial interests in the guardianship estate."

Again, nice misdirection. Once, years ago, Michael did make the kind of offer you mention. What you fail to disclose is that he attached a 10 day agreement clause, under which the family would either agree unconditionally within 10 days or the offer would permanently expire. Your "opion-less" (haha) post also fails to discuss the expenditure of care money on legal fees associated with the quest to withhold nourishment. No, I guess Michael is not "after" insurance money-- he already has it...or at least has spent it.

[nmh]

"Terri's maiden name is SCHINDLER."

OMG! Any relation?

[Julie(LCR)]

"Would you agree the death penalty is the same, we ought not to be doing that?"

Cute. That is straight from the demonrat play book. Why are you here? Generally speaking, in a nut shell - conservatives agree that life is a very precious right - to be protected at almost any cost - and if in fact someone shows total and absolute disregard for the sanctity of life (by commiting a heinous crime, for example) we take the most precious right that we have AWAY from him... yes, that would be that persons life. I am adamantly pro-life and respectfully - pro-death penalty.

[RightWhale]

The State is something beyond both FedGov and state government. The governments are not the State, but part of the State. It is an abstract entity not always clearly perceived. Partly this is due to confusion of different meanings of the word. I capitalize State to indicate the abstract entity in this technical sense.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Frankly did the machines keep her alive longer then intended

There are no machines keeping her alive.

[Cold Heat]

First and foremost, there is anecdotal and reporting evidence of a MRI or more being done.

But that is not really that important, as CT scans are the preferred test for brain and organ pictures. Not MRI's.

We know that these have been done as well.This is another lie to cause public reaction by the family.

This time they told it to officers of the court,(lawyers) and congress. Not just the news media.

Their freedom to lie will be coming to an end soon. If there is real justice in this country still.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

ted kennedy should be called the Chapaquiddick cassanova and if anybody needs to be starved and lose some weight it would be ole' teddy.

How long would it take to starve Teddy?

[nmh]

Hildy - the poster who is pro death and rabidly so for Terri

[deport]

Congress OKs Deal to Keep Schiavo on Tube

17 minutes ago

Politics - U. S. Congress

By SIOBHAN McDONOUGH, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Congress leaders announced agreement Saturday on legislation they said would allow a severely brain-damaged woman to resume being fed while a federal court decides the right-to-die battle between her parents and her husband.

AP Photo

"We think we have found a solution" to the Terri Schiavo case, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, said at a Capitol Hills news conference. "All sides agree that this is the best way to proceed."

Final approval was expected Sunday when the House planned to meet in a special session, he said. The Senate planned to pass a resolution Saturday evening that would let House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., call the House into session on Sunday.

DeLay said President Bush (news - web sites) would sign the bill as soon as it got to him.

The compromise was similar to a Senate bill passed Thursday that would let a federal court has jurisdiction in the Schiavo case. House Republicans had favored broader legislation that applied similar cases that questioned the legality of withholding food or medical treatment from people who are incapacitated.

Schiavo's feeding tube was disconnected Friday afternoon. Schiavo, 41, could linger for one to two weeks if no one intercedes and gets the tube reinserted.

Rep. James Sensenbrenner, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee (news - web sites), said the legislation would move the case to federal court where a judge would determine who has the legal right to decide the question of nutrition and hydration for Schiavo and whether they can be terminated.

Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., said the measure was "narrowly targeted," does not set a precedent and would allow Schiavo to resume being fed and hydrated during the legal appeals.

For a decade, a feud has raged between Schiavo's husband, Michael, and her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, who have tried to oust Michael Schiavo as their daughter's guardian and keep in place the tube that has kept her alive for more than 15 years.

Michael Schiavo says his wife told him she would not want to be kept alive artificially. Her parents dispute that, saying she could get better and that their daughter has laughed, cried, smiled and responded to their voices.

President Bush's spokesman said Friday that the president supported the congressional efforts. "We appreciate those who are standing on the side of protecting and defending life," Scott McClellan said.

Also Friday, Republicans used their subpoena power to demand that Schiavo be brought before a congressional hearing, with lawmakers saying that removing the tube amounted to "barbarism."

The Florida judge presiding over the case rejected the request from House lawyers to delay the tube's removal. Late Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites), without comment, denied an emergency request from the House committee that issued the subpoenas to reinsert Schiavo's feeding tube while the committee filed appeals in the lower courts to have its subpoenas recognized.

[bizzzymom]

"Are there any young women out there who would expect their husbands to sit by their bedside wiping their drool and cleaning their ass for 30 years?"

And I suppose we should move on with our lives after the birth of a severely disabled child too....... My husband and I have wiped drool and changed diapers for 18 years.. x2. But we were young when we had kids so we can dump the kids and move on, now?

You either commit or give guardianship to someone who will....

[little jeremiah]

After my ?, I saw that...

I should read more, post less.

[longtermmemmory]

very true, but then we need to focus limiting him via a finding of SOME court.

(BTW I do hope he is admitted to practice in the Middle federal district of FL....)

BTWW Fox just had this south FL lawyer on arguing that this was a bill of attander. (his only claim to fame is the TV wrestling child death case.) That lawyer is only a criminal lawyer and has not done any substantive civil law. He knows not what he speaks. Why is fox even bothering with him?

[processing please hold]

Got it now, thanks for clarifying.