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To: greenspirit who wrote (105697)	3/24/2005 7:04:53 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) of 793707

it seems to me the courts side-stepped their mandate from Congress and put all the onus on the parents and lawyer representing them. One of the other things I noticed in my marathon news watching during the last 24 was some chatter between an anchor and a reporter in the field in Florida where the anchor asked the reporter if the parents had hired a lawyer with experience at these levels given how different it was from state courts. The reporter said that, no, he didn't think so, rather that the lawyers were doing all this themselves. That might explain why the lawyers didn't know what was required of them. Another possible explanation is inertia and fatigue. They've been operating in a certain paradigm and just didn't recognize that the paradigm had changed. <<Is Terri Schiavo a PVS case? That is the core of the wrenching dispute that has gripped the nation.>> Right now it seems to me that the core is what her wishes were. The default at this point, since it has been so ruled and affirmed many times, is that her wishes were to not live this way. If you operate from that basis, then the courts would be depriving her of her rights if they restored the feeding tube. What needs to be studied de novo is whether that ruling about her wishes is correct and to buy enough time to study that, you'd have to deprive her of her rights as they now stand. Catch-22. As for her being minimally conscious rather than PFS, one of the characterics of that is to be able to respond to yes or no questions with a movement of some sort. If she's really minimally conscious, then she should be able to tell us what her wishes now are. That would settle things. But apparently she can't do that, which would mean that she really is PVS.

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