Fight for Terri Schiavo's life ebbs
Mon Mar 28, 2005 17:09
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Fight for Terri Schiavo's life ebbs
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Mon Mar 28,11:35 AM ET
PINELLAS PARK, United States (AFP) - The brain-damaged American woman whose fate has divided a nation entered her tenth day without food or water with only a handful of activists still fighting her death.
Terri Schiavo's parents relinquished their legal battle to prolong her life and withdrew from view Sunday as Schiavo, 41, received communion and last rites from a family priest and a hospice chaplain.
Father Thaddeus Malanowski placed a single drop of wine on Schiavo's tongue with an eyedropper but said she could not receive even a tiny piece of the host because her mouth was so dry.
"You'd think she'd be sleepy, tired or groggy, but her eyes were wide open," he said.
A hospice chaplain then annointed her body with holy oil, Malanowski said, in the presence of her brother and sister but not her parents, who were reportedly too distraught to participate.
Terri Schiavo's husband Michael Schiavo, who has fought for years to enable the end of a life he says she never wanted, also spent time at her bedside Sunday, according to one of his attorneys.
Her death "is imminent, within days at a maximum," said Hamden Baskin.
Outside the hospice protesters opposed to allowing the brain-damaged woman to die blocked entry to the facility, chanting "Water! Water! Give her Water!" and calling Florida Governor Jeb Bush a "coward" for not intervening with state troops.
"I think Americans should rise up and charge in there and take Terri under their custody," said Zen Garcia, a 34-year-old quadriplegic from Atlanta.
At one point Schiavo's brother Bobby Schindler came out of the hospice complex to ask emotional protesters hurling insults at police to calm down.
Late Saturday the Schindler family's longtime attorney announced that they had given up their federal court battle to try to prolong Schiavo's life.
"There is nothing that can be brought back to the court federally that will in any way help Terri," David Gibbs said.
"Time is moving quickly and it would appear most likely, absent the state court stepping forward, that Terri Schiavo will pass the point that she will be able to recover over this Easter weekend."
The family on Sunday denounced the latter part of his assessment.
The statement "was not made with the family's knowledge. In the family's opinion, that is absolutely not true," religious activist and family spokesman Randall Terry said Sunday.
And while the Schindlers directed their last public pleas to Florida Governor Jeb Bush he made clear Sunday that he had no authority to prevent Terri Schiavo's death.
"I cannot violate a court order. I don't have powers from the United States Constitution or for that matter from the Florida Constitution that would allow me to intervene after a decision has been made," Bush told CNN.
Patrick Mahoney of the Christian Defense Council said he would travel to Washington Monday to press Congress to enforce a subpoena it issued for Schiavo to appear before Congress in a bid to prevent the March 18 removal of her feeding tube.
But the Congressional panel that issued the subpoena has since quietly cancelled the hearing after a string of legal defeats in the case.
President George W. Bush (news - web sites), the elder brother of the Florida governor, who signed legislation last week to send the Schiavo case to federal court said he did so in support of a "culture of life," but was silent on the case as he exited Easter services at a military base on Sunday.
Terri Schiavo has been in what doctors call a "persistent vegetative state" for 15 years since suffering severe brain damage during a cardiac arrest in 1990. Her husband has fought for years to have her feeding tube removed, saying she would not want to be kept alive artificially and should be allowed to die with dignity.
The battle has raged through the state court and legislature, but escalated after the US Congress stepped in last weekend and passed an unprecedented bill allowing the case to be heard in federal court.
Bush returned to Washington from a trip west specifically to sign the bill and did so within two hours of its passage, in the middle of the night.
Since then, the family has suffered a string of court defeats including on Saturday, when a state judge rejected the family's argument that Schiavo had tried to say "I want to live" before her feeding tube was removed.
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Important information about Terri Schiavo can be found at this site,
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/saveterrislife/ you can't join
but you can read the posts.
This site is for people to share ideas on how to save Terri.
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/helpterri/
The mother "can't even bear to go into the same room anymore to see her daughter," said Paul O'Donnell, a Roman Catholic monk who acts as a spokesman for the Schindler family.
http://www.newkerala.com/afp/050328170527.e4ittppl.php
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Action Item ~ Arrest Terri!
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 06:46:16 EST
From: GleFish4@aol.com
To: apfn@apfn.org
If and when Teri has been murdered---will Michael and his accomplices be charged with murder???---maybe his just rewards, if nothing else, will be to keep him in and out of court the rest of his life---let him spend his own money instead of Teri's---the old adage--Payback is Hell--would be an excellent scenario.
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http://tinyurl.com/6lvr2
Mon Mar 28,11:35 AM ET
PINELLAS PARK, United States (AFP) - The brain-damaged American woman whose fate has divided a nation entered her tenth day without food or water with only a handful of activists still fighting her death.
Terri Schiavo's parents relinquished their legal battle to prolong her life and withdrew from view Sunday as Schiavo, 41, received communion and last rites from a family priest and a hospice chaplain.
Father Thaddeus Malanowski placed a single drop of wine on Schiavo's tongue with an eyedropper but said she could not receive even a tiny piece of the host because her mouth was so dry.
"You'd think she'd be sleepy, tired or groggy, but her eyes were wide open," he said.
A hospice chaplain then annointed her body with holy oil, Malanowski said, in the presence of her brother and sister but not her parents, who were reportedly too distraught to participate.
Terri Schiavo's husband Michael Schiavo, who has fought for years to enable the end of a life he says she never wanted, also spent time at her bedside Sunday, according to one of his attorneys.
Her death "is imminent, within days at a maximum," said Hamden Baskin.
Outside the hospice protesters opposed to allowing the brain-damaged woman to die blocked entry to the facility, chanting "Water! Water! Give her Water!" and calling Florida Governor Jeb Bush a "coward" for not intervening with state troops.
"I think Americans should rise up and charge in there and take Terri under their custody," said Zen Garcia, a 34-year-old quadriplegic from Atlanta.
At one point Schiavo's brother Bobby Schindler came out of the hospice complex to ask emotional protesters hurling insults at police to calm down.
Late Saturday the Schindler family's longtime attorney announced that they had given up their federal court battle to try to prolong Schiavo's life.
"There is nothing that can be brought back to the court federally that will in any way help Terri," David Gibbs said.
"Time is moving quickly and it would appear most likely, absent the state court stepping forward, that Terri Schiavo will pass the point that she will be able to recover over this Easter weekend."
The family on Sunday denounced the latter part of his assessment.
The statement "was not made with the family's knowledge. In the family's opinion, that is absolutely not true," religious activist and family spokesman Randall Terry said Sunday.
And while the Schindlers directed their last public pleas to Florida Governor Jeb Bush he made clear Sunday that he had no authority to prevent Terri Schiavo's death.
"I cannot violate a court order. I don't have powers from the United States Constitution or for that matter from the Florida Constitution that would allow me to intervene after a decision has been made," Bush told CNN.
Patrick Mahoney of the Christian Defense Council said he would travel to Washington Monday to press Congress to enforce a subpoena it issued for Schiavo to appear before Congress in a bid to prevent the March 18 removal of her feeding tube.
But the Congressional panel that issued the subpoena has since quietly cancelled the hearing after a string of legal defeats in the case.
President George W. Bush (news - web sites), the elder brother of the Florida governor, who signed legislation last week to send the Schiavo case to federal court said he did so in support of a "culture of life," but was silent on the case as he exited Easter services at a military base on Sunday.
Terri Schiavo has been in what doctors call a "persistent vegetative state" for 15 years since suffering severe brain damage during a cardiac arrest in 1990. Her husband has fought for years to have her feeding tube removed, saying she would not want to be kept alive artificially and should be allowed to die with dignity.
The battle has raged through the state court and legislature, but escalated after the US Congress stepped in last weekend and passed an unprecedented bill allowing the case to be heard in federal court.
Bush returned to Washington from a trip west specifically to sign the bill and did so within two hours of its passage, in the middle of the night.
Since then, the family has suffered a string of court defeats including on Saturday, when a state judge rejected the family's argument that Schiavo had tried to say "I want to live" before her feeding tube was removed.
=======================
Father Says Schiavo Weak but Responding
ABC News - 51 minutes ago
In this undated photo released by the Schindler family, Terri Schiavo is shown before she suffered catastrophic brain damage. (AP Photo/Schindler Family Photo). By MARK LONG Associated Press Writer. PINELLAS PARK, Fla. ...
Father Says Schiavo Weak but Responding SierraTimes.com
Conflicting Reports on Schiavo's Health NPR (audio)
Wired News - Cybercast News Service - Melbourne Herald Sun - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Dad fears doctors will kill Schiavo
Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia - 1 hour ago
THE father of Terri Schiavo today made an emotional appeal for US authorities to reconnect a feeding tube to his severely brain-damaged daughter and said he ...
all 3,856 related »
Bobby Schindler
Important information about Terri Schiavo can be found at this site,
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/saveterrislife/ you can't join
but you can read the posts.
This site is for people to share ideas on how to save Terri.
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/helpterri/
The mother "can't even bear to go into the same room anymore to see her daughter," said Paul O'Donnell, a Roman Catholic monk who acts as a spokesman for the Schindler family.
http://www.newkerala.com/afp/050328170527.e4ittppl.php
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Action Item ~ Arrest Terri!
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 06:46:16 EST
From: GleFish4@aol.com
To: apfn@apfn.org
If and when Teri has been murdered---will Michael and his accomplices be charged with murder???---maybe his just rewards, if nothing else, will be to keep him in and out of court the rest of his life---let him spend his own money instead of Teri's---the old adage--Payback is Hell--would be an excellent scenario.
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