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Okeechobee, FL (LifeNews.com) -- A legal battle is brewing in southern Florida pitting a disabled woman’s husband against her family in a fight over whether or not to take her life. The battle is similar to the one the family of Terri Schiavo faced to prevent her husband from subjecting her to a painful starvation and dehydration death.
This new case involves 57-year-old Karen Weber, who doctors claim has been in a partial vegetative state since December, when she suffered a stroke.
The situation is similar to the Schiavo case in that Weber did not have a living will or other advanced directive spelling out the kind of medical care she would like should she become unable to make her own medical decisions.
Weber is currently on a feeding tube and her husband Raymond wants to end her life by removing that and starving her to death.
“She has pneumonia,” he told WPBF-TV. “She has colostomy bags. She has a breathing apparatus."
However, Karen’s mother, Martha Tatro, is hoping to get a court to approve her request to prevent Raymond Weber from taking his wife’s life.
“I've told her she could live out the rest of her life and she would never have to worry about anything and I will protect her," Tatro said.
“I’m her mother and her husband filed a thing to take her life," Tatro told the television station.
Her sister Joyce Tatro-Manes added: “A woman in the year 2007-08 should be heard, no matter if she's impaired or not. She has a right to her opinion and she has a right to her own life.”
Local courts held a guardianship hearing on Wednesday and Weber’s relatives told a local judge that she is able to communicate with them through blinking, nodding, and laughing.
During the hearing, Raymond Weber said he wants guardianship of his wife.
"I’ve been her husband for 34 years, so why shouldn't I have guardianship," he said.
The television station indicated a state-appointed attorney for Karen Weber suggested to the court that her husband should win the legal right to make her medical decisions and the court is expected to render a decision in about a month.
Florida Legal Battle Involves Life and Death Debate Similar to Terri Schiavo
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Santa Clara, CA (LifeNews.com) -- Details have emerged from documents in a California appeals court case that a Planned Parenthood abortion business referred for an abortion on a sexually-abused teenager without telling authorities about the abuse. The case prompts pro-life advocates to say parental notification is needed.
According to court documents, a Santa Clara County sexual predator impregnated his 13-year-old stepdaughter and forced her to have a late-term abortion.
The man then continued to molest her for another seven months until the child's mother discovered the abuse and contacted police.
Despite two visits to Planned Parenthood and a surgical abortion at San Francisco General Hospital, no healthcare provider bothered to inform law enforcement................
California Planned Parenthood Made Abortion Referral, Didn't Report Abuse (13 year old)
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Karen Weber’s pneumonia can be treated. Seems to me if she’s not being moved or isn’t sitting up, etc, that’s what causes pneumonia. Further, Karen’s in Florida and in Florida, staff OBEY HINOS instead of adhering to medical standards. Remember when mikey schiavo withheld antibiotics for Terri? that was a rare instance where a Judge over-ruled www.michaelschiavo.org.
Praise God for breathing devices!!
My 23 month old twin grand daughter was completely
unconscious and on a respirator for over a month.
She was also on a feeding tube.
As resilient as young ones can be, she is off the respirator
and pulled out the feeding tube (NG) recently.
God used that time for her little body to begin to respond.
LET KAREN LIVE!!!