Politicians still wrong on Terri's case [her brother addresses Romney's recent comments]

WorldNetDaily ^ | March 21, 2007 | Bobby Schindler

[cgk]

Bobby's response - Ping.

[wagglebee]

It won't be long before the culture of death comes along and explains how Terri often spoke of wanting to be starved and dehydrated to death.

[George W. Bush]

The truth is Terri's real family asked Congress to get involved. Congress didn't wake up one morning and arbitrarily decide to weigh in. An enormous groundswell of support caused tens of thousands of constituents to contact their senators and congressmen, which resulted in the congressional effort to give Terri a fair hearing. This was exactly how our system of government was supposed to work.

It is a poor practice for Congress to directly intervene directly in any single medical case. Hard cases make for bad laws.

Congress should have done more to institute review panels and to pass laws limiting a faithless spouse like Schiavo from profiting from his wife's death. They need to make the laws to force competent medical reviews before anyone is deprived of food or water.

[pillut48]

{{{{{{{{{Terri's Family}}}}}}}}

Spot on, Bobby. Spot on.

[lilylangtree]

I always felt that it was reprehensible by Michael Schiavo and the judicial system that absolutely REFUSED to see the conflict of interest. Schiavo, while married, lived with another woman and fathered two children. He never divorced Terri yet controlled her destiny even when her parents wanted to take total care of her so that she could live. This was so wrong in all respects.

[cgk]

It won't be long before the culture of death comes along and explains how Terri often spoke of wanting to be starved and dehydrated to death.

...And says she was a brain-dead-vegetable-waste-of-space-useless-body-dead-shell anyway, so what the heck do we all care.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

They'll be here. It'll just take a little longer, since Terri's real "family" effectively destroyed all of their usual talking points.

[tutstar]

read later...

[wagglebee]

What Congress should have done is enforce their subpoena.

They are prepared to go to court because Karl Rove won't testify under oath; but when Terri was subpoenaed and Greer refused to allow her to go, Congress just went along with it after a Florida court sided with Greer. In any other instance, Congress would have sent marshalls to enforce it.

[wagglebee]

They've been on the Romney thread for days talking about how she had a living will and was brain dead.

[Sun]

"Romney recently stated, "My view was a case like this would normally be left in the hands of a court."

It's makes one wonder if Romney thought that Roe should have been decided in the hands of a court.

Is Romney REALLY pro-life? IMO, no.!

[wagglebee]

That too.

[frogjerk]

It is a poor practice for Congress to directly intervene directly in any single medical case. Hard cases make for bad laws.

Many laws are passed or are changed due to a single famous incident or person. Congress intervenes on individual citizens behalf everytime they are in session. What is the difference here?

[cgk]

They've been on the Romney thread for days talking about how she had a living will and was brain dead.

Oh - do they all support Romney?

[wagglebee]

I don't think so, they just want to explain how Terri wanted to be killed.

[wagglebee]

Since these leftists seem to think that everything should be decided by the courts, what do they perceive the function of the legislature to be?

[Lexinom]

The truth is Terri's real family asked Congress to get involved. Congress didn't wake up one morning and arbitrarily decide to weigh in. An enormous groundswell of support caused tens of thousands of constituents to contact their senators and congressmen, which resulted in the congressional effort to give Terri a fair hearing. This was exactly how our system of government was supposed to work.

The only salient fact in this case is that an innocent human being was executed without due process, representation, or conviction. Nothing else is relevant - not with (innocent) human life at stake. Nothing.

[Sun]

"Since these leftists seem to think that everything should be decided by the courts, what do they perceive the function of the legislature to be?"

Excellent!

Guess they don't know there are THREE branches of govt.

[EternalVigilance]

I agree.