Posted on 02/01/2008 2:51:57 PM PST by Pyro7480
A Delaware woman has become the next Terri Schiavo as her parents engage in a massive legal and philosophical debate about whether to subject her to euthanasia. Richardson is a 23-year-old woman who overdosed on heroin in August 2006 while she was three months pregnant with a baby girl.
Doctors kept Lauren on life support until she delivered her baby in February 2007. Shortly thereafter, her parents began a fight that is reminiscent of the battle over Terri's life and death.
As in the Terri Schiavo case, physicians have been quick to label Lauren as having a persistent vegetative state -- something Terri's family called dehumanizing and medically inaccurate as patients have recovered from it.
Edith Towers, Lauren's mother, wants to remove her feeding tube and starve and dehydrate her to death in the same manner that Michael Schiavo subjected Terri.
Towers claims Lauren would never have wanted to live as a permanently disabled person, but Lauren, as with Terri, did not have a living will or other advance directive spelling out her treatment wishes. She claims Lauren told her during Terri's battle that she would not want to live like her.
On the other side is Randy Richardson, Lauren's father is fighting to save her life and wants to be appointed as her guardian to ensure she receives appropriate medical care and treatment.
"She's committed no crime and doesn't deserve to have this death imposed on her," Richardson told the News Journal newspaper on Wednesday. "We just want to give her a chance."
Lauren no longer uses a ventilator or other breathing apparatus and is not on artificial life support -- something Randy contends is showing progress.
Towers is winning the legal battle in court as she was awarded guardianship of Lauren, but Randy Richardson has filed an appeal.
The News Journal indicates Delaware Court of Chancery Master Sam Glasscock III has put any action taking Lauren's life on hold while the court reviews the guardianship ruling -- a process that could take as much as three months to complete.
Regardless of the decision, an appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court is expected.
Randy Richardson also has other concerns about his daughter and says that Towers, his ex-wife, has not allowed Lauren's baby to see her.
Richardson and the Delaware Pro-Life Coalition released a video on Wednesday that shows Lauren at a nursing home reacting to family members and a dog.
The pro-life group also organized a prayer vigil near the Arbors Rehab Center in New Castle.
RIP. Mr. Buckley lived by my high school pal when he lived by Newburgh, NY. I had a feeling someone here knew him. It figures that it was the one and only twit.
T'wit taught Buckley how to use big words! :-)
These choices are no surprise to me. The media mania continues.
They are the thieves.
Those are both excellent movies, The Godfather would certainly be in my top 10 (though Godfather II was better).
I liked Lawrence of Arabia but both movies are too violent for my taste.
Actually, Ralph Nader was on Terri’s side and made a statement that they should leave the feeding tube in.
I didn’t know that.
I watched Lawrence of Arabia again not long ago, the one thing I was left with was the thought that if the British had kept their promises to the Arabs we would be living in a very different and safer world today.
Withholding care is not execution. Inflammatory language obscures rather than clarifies complex issues.
Fox News’s guest mentioned Buckley’s wit.
Against her were Florida's Republican legislators. I have the graphic of the GOP'ers who voted to kill Terri. I just don't have a place to host it.
Had the nine RINOS voted for Terri, she'd still be here...
Let's "clarify" things a little further then, shall we:
Food and water ARE NOT medical care, they are basic requirements for all human beings. To deny them has always been considered cruel and inhumane by civilized people. To suggest otherwise would certainly be "inflammatory language" more typical of those groups which do not value human life.
If you want to push your pro-death agenda, perhaps you should take it to another forum, or at least another thread because it WILL NOT be tolerated on any of the "Terri Dailies" thread.
Perhaps but it still hinged upon the willingness of Jeb Bush to recognize the Congressional subpoena.
Jeb Bush was unwilling to be a leader or a man. However, he was willing to be a coward “for the party”.
the death culters are on vacation.
Check #430 and my reply at #433.
Withholding care is called NEGLECT. Neglect can lead to death/execution. Take your pick
Florida Statute 765.309
Mercy Killing or euthanasia not authorized. (1) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to condone, authorize, or approve mercy killing or euthanasia, or to permit any affirmative or deliberate act or omission to end life other than to permit the natural process of dying.
(The law the State of Florida VIOLATED when they tortured Terri to death.)
I pretty much knew the Florida Constitution and pertinent statutes backwards and forwards three years ago.
There were several different instances where Terri’s civil rights were blatantly ignored and Jeb Bush had more than enough authority to act without the consent of the courts or legislature.
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