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Supreme Court, Appeals Court Reject Appeals -- Schiavo Nears Two Weeks Without Food or Water
We wouldn't do this to a dog. As you consider the excess and tyranny of the courts, and their callous inaction, keep in mind that:A conscious [cognitively disabled] person would feel it just as you or I would. They will go into seizures. Their skin cracks, their tongue cracks, their lips crack. They may have nosebleeds because of the drying of the mucus membranes, and heaving and vomiting might ensue because of the drying out of the stomach lining. They feel the pangs of hunger and thirst. Imagine going one day without a glass of water! Death by dehydration takes ten to fourteen days. It is an extremely agonizing death. See link to A "Painless" Death?. PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (AP) - Nearly two weeks after Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was disconnected, her parents endured two more legal setbacks in their fight to keep her alive when the U.S. Supreme Court and a federal appeals court refused to intervene. * * *The case has spent seven years winding its way through the courts, with the Schindlers repeatedly on the losing end. The nation's high court on Wednesday declined to intervene for the sixth time. Hours earlier in an 9-2 ruling, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta declined to grant a new hearing in the case - the fourth time since last week that it ruled against the Schindlers. One of the appeals court judges rebuked the White House and lawmakers Wednesday for acting "in a manner demonstrably at odds with our Founding Fathers' blueprint for the governance of a free people - our Constitution." Ah, what about that ironclad rule of law that the actions of the legislature are entitled to a presumption of constitutionality? Just doesn't fit Judge Birch and Judge Greer's ideas of how to run things . . . "Any further action by our court or the district court would be improper," wrote Judge Stanley F. Birch Jr., appointed by President Bush's father. * * *Her parents doubt she had any end-of-life wishes and say she laughs, tries to speak and responds to them when they visit the hospice.But, who cares. Welcome to the brave new world.. * * * Posted by: cingold 2005-03-31 |
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