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To: redfish who wrote (98090)	3/15/2005 10:51:07 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Here's a proposed Federal law: Measure gives incapacitated same due process as condemned inmates [No inflammatory rhetoric there] Posted: March 8, 2005 2:54 p.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Two Republican lawmakers from Florida introduced legislation in Congress today they hope will save the life of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman whose parents are battling a court order to remove her life-sustaining feeding tube. Sen. Mel Martinez and Rep. David Weldon say the Incapacitated Person's Legal Protection Act will give Schiavo, and others in similar situations, the same constitutional protection of due process as death-row inmates. . . . worldnetdaily.com

To: redfish who wrote (98090)	3/15/2005 4:00:01 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

In all fairness to our esteemed posters, redfish, I think the Schiavo case is being covered much more thoroughly in the Florida press than nationally or internationally. I read a lot, and had not yet seen the same depth of detail as in the materials you presented here.

To: redfish who wrote (98090)	3/15/2005 4:22:41 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 108807

<<That is already happening, our state legislature is right now deciding on a bill that would prohibit pulling the plug unless there is "clear and convincing" evidence that's what the person would have wanted.>> Years ago we had a case locally where the 19 year old daughter of a farming couple who were Christian Scientists, their religion is prayer not medicine, had a head injury in a car accident and was in a coma for 11 years before she died. Every day the parents drove into town to the hospital and prayed over their daughter. It was hard to see them on the street as they almost had a visible cloud over their heads. They liked to talk about the crops and their horses so that was the only thing we ever asked about.