The judge said no food for Terri Schiavo.
Now it's off to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.
Needless to say, things don't look good.
Get a living will and be very careful who you marry.
Being brain-damaged could get you iced in these parts.
Governor Bush is still plugging away. It may be too late, however. At least if he does succeed at ousting Michael Schiavo as guardian for adultery, the parents could get their daughter's body back, and MS intends to have her cremated.
UPDATE:
James Taranto said it very well:
Supporters of Michael Schiavo's effort to end his wife's life have asked how conservatives, who claim to believe in the sanctity of marriage, can fail to respect his husbandly authority. The most obvious answer is that a man's authority as a husband does not supersede his wife's rights as a human being--a principle we never thought we'd see liberals question.
But why do those of us who aren't right-to-life absolutists side with Mrs. Schiavo's parents, who want to keep her alive, over her husband, who wants her dead? It's a fair question, and it raises another one: What kind of husband is Michael Schiavo?
According to news reports, Mr. Schiavo lives with a woman named Jodi Centonze, and they have two children together. Surely any court would consider this prima facie evidence of adultery. And this is no mere fling; a sympathetic 2003 profile in the Orlando Sentinel described Centonze as Mr. Schiavo's "fiancée." Mr. Schiavo, in other words, has virtually remarried. Short of outright bigamy, his relationship with Centonze is as thoroughgoing a violation of his marriage vows as it is possible to imagine.
The point here is not to castigate Mr. Schiavo for behaving badly. It would require a heroic degree of self-sacrifice for a man to forgo love and sex in order to remain faithful to an incapacitated wife, and it would be unreasonable to hold an ordinary man to a heroic standard.
But it is equally unreasonable to let Mr. Schiavo have it both ways. If he wishes to assert his marital authority to do his wife in, the least society can expect in return is that he refrain from making a mockery of his marital obligations. The grimmest irony in this tragic case is that those who want Terri Schiavo dead are resting their argument on the fiction that her marriage is still alive.
Posted by floridacracker at March 22, 2005 08:36 AMI must admit to being keen on her being switched off, until I saw the homicidal hubby; pure self-interest and he looked like a baddie from Miami Vice. Keep up the pressure, Donnah, if only to get her out of his hands. It still seems borderline if she is non-vegetative, and has any sort of reasonable prognosis; a loathesome ex who's been pissing the funds for continuance on legal fights to croak when he stands to pick up the rest smacks of vested interet to me. I hope the item signed into law by GWB does the business, and her family take control off the douche and clean him out; that is only that the media is right, and he is wrong. I know if I was TPV I would want to be shut down, and my co-blogger Carl would do the job (ICU Anasthesiologist).
Posted by: Paul at March 22, 2005 09:53 AMHonest to God, who wants their fate to be in the hands of a spouse who's shacked up with somebody else and having kids?
Mr. Cracker would be beaten to a pulp if he ever tried to do me that way. My family's thin veneer of civilization is patchy in some areas.
I have an analogy the Bush=Hitler crowd should be able to appreciate.
A1941. After a prisoner had escaped from the death camp of Auschwitz, Obersturmbahnführer Greer selected 10 prisoners at random who were to be killed by starvation in reprisal for the escape.
The Schindlers had to stand and watch powerless how their daughter was led away to the starvation bunker.
When she was still alive after 3 weeks, camp doctor Stanford killed her with a lethal injection.
I'd say, before anyone feels just a bit sorry for Michael Schiavo, try to imagine how it is to see your kin sent to the starvation bunker by some heartless authority with a God complex.
Taranto nailed it.
Posted by: John from WuzzaDem at March 22, 2005 11:24 AMJinnderella has some interesting things to say on this topic. My two cents: Someone should at least have the nads to do it right and put a needle in the poor woman. She deserves no less mercy than they give child-murderers and injured dogs.
Posted by: Baron Bodissey at March 22, 2005 05:01 PMMr. Schiavo should be charged with attempted murder! I think his live in ????? should be concerned about her life. If marriage to her is a priority... which it is not. He would have divorced Terri and Married her years ago when their children were born. What is his underlying motive to wanting her dead? Jodi should be ware what would become of her if she became ill. I would not want to be at the mercy of this man. He is an evil murderer.
Posted by: JL at March 25, 2005 06:56 PM