Posted on 03/18/2005 1:08:41 PM PST by AliVeritas
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (AP) - Doctors removed Terri Schiavo's feeding tube Friday despite an extraordinary, last-minute push by Republicans on Capitol Hill to use the subpoena powers of Congress to keep the severely brain-damaged woman alive, a source close to the case told The Associated Press.
It is expected that it will take one to two weeks for Schiavo to die, provided no one intercedes and gets the tube reinserted. The source had been briefed on the situation but spoke on condition of anonymity.
The removal came amid a flurry of maneuvering by Schiavo's parents, state lawmakers and Congress to keep her alive. Committees in the Republican-controlled Congress issued subpoenas for Schiavo, her husband, and her caregivers demanding that they appear at hearings on March 25 and March 28.
But the judge presiding over the case later refused a request from House attorneys to delay the removal, which he had previously ordered to take place at 1 p.m. EST.
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Could someone post a link to a comprehenzive history of Schiavo case.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1365111/posts
Hey, help me out here.
Does she have a written will, or living will like Michaels attorney is saying she does??
"We treat our old pets better."
You are absolutely right. She isn't even being given a proper execution - and that is exactly what this sub-human "judge" has ordered.
Somehow, watching the husband's attorney on television, I feel I am seeing the epitomy of human arrogance and depravation. Absolutely no emotion that a person's life is about to be snuffed out. Making political points at this moment is beyond pathetic.
His answering mailbox is "full". How interesting.
"This is perversion. Starving a woman to death is perverted."
It is much worse. This is absolute depravity.
For God's sake, people, let her GO!
Make her comnfortable, love her, but do not enslave her any longer for your own pathetic propitiative needs.
She did her best. Now let go and let her be functional again.
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Very well put --
Let her live again -- my faith says she will and she will be whole again.
It's time to stop the delays and comply with Terri's stated wishes. If she had known before her accident that her body would have survived as this kind of zombified horror, she would probably have put a bullet in her brain.
Ok I am confused, Michael Schiavo attorney is on TV railing against Democrat Congress, I though the Republican Congress tried to stop the removal?
I have NEVER IN MY LIFE SEEN a JUDGE so INTENT ON KILLING SOMEONE!!!!
The moral from this is to make sure that your wishes in case such a thing happens are in writing.
My wife and I would both wish to die if either of us were ever in Terry's position, and have so stated in writing as a result of this legal/legislative/media train wreck. Whether you would or whether you wouldn't, make sure that the wishes of you and yours are all written down so that this sort of thing never happens in your family.
Clearly you have never been to a Texas murder trial.
Oh, you are toast!!! Hope you enjoyed your stay!
I've followed this case in the last year, and I believe too many people are too emotional about this.
but here's what strikes me about Terri's case. We often have we seen a judge or appeals court somewhere halt a pending execution of a murderer -- often a killer about whom there is no question he/she actually committed the crime.
In contrast, we never see a story wherein a condemned murderer is simply allowed to starve to death by halting the feeding of him/her for a couple of weeks before the execution was to take place.
So in Terri's case -- a case in which Terri most certainly has not murdered anybody -- here we have a judge deciding to err on the side of death in questionable circumnstances. If there is a chance she could live, let her live.
If there is a chance that in, say, a year, that she could eat on her own, and more importantly, COMMUNICATE HER WISHES AS TO WHETHER SHE WANTS TO LIVE OR DIE ... then why not give her the best medical care possible to try to IMPROVE HER CONDITION, rather than simply maintain her condition at a level where she couldn't get better?
We take every effort and precaution to keep murderers alive just so they can be legally executed someday. Suicide watch. Pretty good food. Isolation if they're in danger in the general population.
Why not make every effort with Terri? She's been on her own "death row" for fewer years than the typical California death row inmate.
I can see both sides on this. But I'm skeptical about the husband. And if there is a shadow of a doubt, it seems that taking a little more time to be sure about her condition and prognosis, using an independent panel of doctors is the way go go.
Being absolutely, 150 % sure about Terri's outlook, hurts no one -- except a husband who may want to keep his wife incommunicado.
-George
Why not just give her husband a revolver and get it over with, why not let him get his hands dirty. It would be less cruel.
That's a BIT different!!!!
I think the vast majority of people feel that way. What keeps to from coming down on "let Terry be with the Lord" side is the creepiness of Michael Schiavo. He's just a little to eager to pull the plug.
What's pathetic about keeping her alive? What's pathetic about letting Terri's parents take care of her as they wish?
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